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Trump: Transgender people can use whatever bathroom they want — Transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want, Donald Trump said Thursday. — “Oh, I had a feeling that question was going to come up, I will tell you. North Carolina did something that was very strong.
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Donald Trump was asked about anti-transgender bathroom bills. His answer was ... correct.
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Donald Trump Comes Out Against North Carolina's ‘Very Strong’ Bathroom Bill
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Mother Jones and Joe.My.God.

Trump Blasts North Carolina Law, Says Caitlyn Jenner Should Pee Where She Wants
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Britain issues warning for LGBT travelers visiting North Carolina and Mississippi
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Women will be on Hillary Clinton's vice president list — NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's short list of vice presidential options will include a woman, a top campaign official said in an interview — creating the possibility of an all-female ticket emerging from the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
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A Lot of Hillary Clinton's New York Supporters Kept Quiet About Their Allegiances
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ESPN — at long last — has fired Curt Schilling, and we're all better for it — Curt Schilling's firing has been a work in progress for many months. — ESPN could have gotten rid of him at the end of the 2015 baseball season for his tweet equating “Muslim extremists” with the Nazi regime in Germany …
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Curt Schilling, ESPN Analyst, Is Fired Over Offensive Social Media Post — Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and one of the highest-profile baseball analysts on ESPN, was fired from the network Wednesday, a day after he drew intense criticism for promoting offensive commentary on social media.


ESPN Statement on Curt Schilling
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Palin Blasts ESPN, Posts Her Own Anti-Trans Meme After Schilling Firing
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Politico


Greta: The Gov't Is Needlessly ‘Dividing the Country’ with Harriet Tubman $20 — Fox's Greta Van Susteren ended her show tonight by going on a mini-rant about how the government is “dividing the country” by putting Harriet Tubman on the $20. — Wait, what?
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Trump on Harriet Tubman $20: ‘Pure political correctness’ — Donald Trump blasted the Treasury Department's decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill, adding Thursday that Tubman is “fantastic” and that she should go on the “$2 bill” or another denomination.
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Trump: Tubman on the $20 bill is ‘pure political correctness’
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Donald Trump Plans to Adopt More-Traditional Campaign Tactics — GOP front-runner says his campaign is evolving; coming soon are policy addresses, teleprompters and a speechwriter — Donald Trump, after notching a big win in New York, is planning to roll out significant changes in his campaign …
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Kasich: 'My Republican Party doesn't like ideas'
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Hanna: GOP's extremism will make it lose
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Talking Points Memo and The Week


Bernie Sanders Is a Democrat for Life, Says Campaign Manager Jeff Weaver — On “With All Due Respect,” Jeff Weaver, campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, discusses the New York primary, superdelegates and the future of the Vermont senator's presidential run.
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and No More Mister Nice Blog
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What Is Sanders's Endgame? — Hillary Clinton's commanding victory in New York on Tuesday put yet another nail in the coffin of Bernie Sanders's candidacy. — As The Upshot's Nate Cohn put it: — “New York, like every contest at this stage, was a state he needed to win.
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New York Had the Second-Lowest Voter Turnout So Far This Election Season
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Chyna Dead — WWE Legend Dies ... ‘Possible Overdose’ (PHOTO UPDATE) — WWE legend Chyna — real name Joanie Laurer — has died ... and officials are investigating as a possible overdose, TMZ Sports has learned. — We've learned she was in her apartment in Redondo Beach, CA …
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Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen — Clinton voters overlook money lust, shadowy surrogates, sociopathic policy shifts, horrific overseas record. Why? — What is it with the Hillary cult? — As a lifelong Democrat …
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Althouse

How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk — Throughout her career she has displayed instincts on foreign policy that are more aggressive than those of President Obama — and most Democrats. — Hillary Clinton sat in the hideaway study off her ceremonial office in the State Department …
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The Week


Musk's Secret Plan to Curb City Traffic With Self-Driving ‘Bus’ — Tesla founder says he's exploring futuristic public transport — Vehicle would replace buses in cities, complement Hyperloop — Tesla's Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is working on a self-driving vehicle …
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The Verge and The Daily Caller


The smug style in American liberalism — There is a smug style in American liberalism. It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really …
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The American Conservative


Sober is the new drunk: why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls — Juice crawls are just one of many booze-free events in the US catering to millennials who are ditching the hooch in favor of clarity — On a Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, Rachel Floyd and her boyfriend Paul Isham …