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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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Conservatives Aren't Taking The Harriet Tubman News Well — Hours after the Treasury Department announced its plans to revamp a number of U.S. paper bills with depictions of African American and female civil rights icons, conservatives started criticizing the move as “politically correct” and “unnecessary.”
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Vox, Independent Journal …, Salon, Infowars, New York Times, Off the Kuff, The Daily Beast, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Religion News Service

Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20 — After years of complaining that America's paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Guardian


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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Vox, Tennessean.com, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and Politico

Harriet Tubman Is a Great Choice, Not a Politically Correct One
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Mother Jones, New Urban Legends, The Resurgent, Guns.com, New York Post, Betsy's Page, Mashable, Independent Journal … and Daily Kos


Trump on Tubman: “pure political correctness.” Trump on Jackson: “tremendous success.”
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National Review, Hullabaloo, Right Wing Watch, Mediaite, Agence France-Presse, AOL, Little Green Footballs, Mashable and New York Times

Trump on Harriet Tubman $20: ‘Pure political correctness’
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Vox, Daily Wire, ABC News, The Hill, New York Magazine, The Slot and No More Mister Nice Blog

Greta Van Susteren: ‘Stupid’ to put Tubman on $20 bill
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Politico, Washington Monthly and National Review

Donald Trump was asked about anti-transgender bathroom bills. His answer was ... correct.
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Althouse

Donald Trump joins TODAY Show for live town hall, answers voters' questions

Donald Trump Comes Out Against North Carolina's ‘Very Strong’ Bathroom Bill
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Mother Jones and Joe.My.God.


Dead at 57 — The artist known as Prince has died ... TMZ has learned. He was 57. — Prince's body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning. — Multiple sources connected to the singer confirmed he had passed. We've obtained the emergency dispatch call for a “male down, not breathing.”
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Prince, Dead At 57, Was Found Unresponsive In Paisley Park Elevator — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) — Prince passed away Thursday morning at his Paisley Park recording studio. He was 57. — Prince's publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, confirmed the pop music superstar's death early Thursday afternoon.
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Washington Post, TMZ.com, Raw Story, Heat Street, Independent Journal … and CBS Chicago


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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Washington Post, CNN, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, AOL, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, The Slot, Power Line, The Week and Shakesville
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With Uncertainty at Top of Ticket, Republicans Back Off in Some States — HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The Republican National Committee is scaling back its financial commitments to some of the most hotly contested states because of flagging fund-raising, the most concrete evidence yet of how the party's divisive …
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Political Wire


Long Primary Carries Costs for Hillary Clinton: Money and Time
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Political Wire and Common Dreams

What Is Sanders's Endgame? — Hillary Clinton's commanding victory …
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MSNBC, NBC News, Sky Dancing, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Raw Story and Business Insider


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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Politicus USA, Sarah Palin and The Huffington Post
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Cruz Doubles Down On ‘Bathroom Bill’ Talking Points By Defending Curt Schilling to Glenn Beck
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Louder With Crowder and Media Matters for America

The radicalization of Curt Schilling
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USA Today, CBS New York, Outsports, Boston Globe and American Power

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

Private polls reveal a Trump-Cruz Indiana dogfight — No state in the coming weeks of the Republican presidential contest is viewed by the campaigns as more consequential than Indiana — and none has been a bigger black hole for polling, where not a single public survey of the state's electorate has been released.
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Political Wire, National Review, New York Times and Hot Air
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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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Hot Air and The American Conservative

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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Mother Jones, Washington Post, The American Conservative and The Week


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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KTLA, Los Angeles Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Fox News Insider, Q13 FOX News, CNN, Drudge Retort, The Week and Scared Monkeys


When Prince got political — Prince didn't shy away from politics during his influential music career. — He was not a protest song singer like fellow Minnesotan Bob Dylan, did not hit the campaign trail like Bruce Springsteen and was never associated with global activism like U2's Bono.
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Talking Points Memo and alan.com


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 …
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Hit & Run


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, Consumerist and The Daily Caller