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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

the tuesday effect

america to establishment: who the hell are you people?

arrests as hundreds protest money in politics at the u.s. capitol

it's not the zika virus causing birth defects -- it's monsanto's pesitcide

everyone has been busy and distracted since 1710 

who will speak for the american white working class?

an open letter from a spider to all humans everywhere

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Monday, April 11, 2016

monday night at steve's

can religious groups ignore all laws they don't like?

how the reagan-era cia predicted our drone dystopia

the modern war on drugs began as nixon's assault on black people

what to do if you get ransomware

man doesn't return vhs tape to rental place - gets put in handcuffs


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Sunday, April 10, 2016

on almost any sunday morning

why voters will stay angry

computer use may help predict early stage alzheimer's

the inherent racial bias of facial recognition software

american's elections rank among the worst in the world.  here's why

bar kicks out 2 black women who happen to be aclu lawyers 
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Saturday, April 09, 2016

the saturday option

caribbean nations are trying to make styrofoam illegal

big union leadersbetray sanders and workers

uncovering the secret locations where the u.s. illegally interrogates its captives

"women in politics" doesn't just mean hillary

10 housing markets  where first-time buyers have no chance

why we should fear a cashless world
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Friday, April 08, 2016

friday night lights

drug makers now spend $5 billion a year on advertising

why mass shootings keep happening

our economy is obsessed with efficiency and terrible at everything else

toxic moss scares portland

the man who listed the egyptian president for sale on ebay
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Thursday, April 07, 2016

thursday's radiation

trump is the most unpopular presidential candidate since the head of the ku klux klan

ny millionaires write the governor asking for higher taxes

lead taints drinking water in hundreds of schools across the u.s.

feds rarely prosecute civil rights violations by police

don't these guys write this stuff out before hand? antonin scalia school of law = assol

and rip country music's original outlaw merle haggard
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Wednesday, April 06, 2016

dreamy wednesdays

zombie companies are killing the economy

what is the real reason that we sleep?

televangelists need private jets because demons fly commercial

forget trump, who's really destroying the republican party?

browse through the first interactive maps of cat tracks 
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

the thing about tuesdays

rich countries have a $78 trillion pension problem

unplanned pregnancies are at a 35 year low

the religious right: still not dead

there's a 1 in 4 chance the fish you eat in a restaurant contains plastic

prop iceberg scares horse to death
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Monday, April 04, 2016

monday night at grandpa's

the very existence of the nsa is illegal

finland ranked workd's most literate nation

how trump bent television to his will

these are the most racist cities in america

 dog believed lost at sea found on naval island



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Sunday, April 03, 2016

on a sunday afternoon

13 million americans are at risk of being washed away

your next car will be hacked

legal marijuana is doing what the drug war couldn't

gun control: toddlers kill more people than terrorists do

the geneology of american geneology
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Saturday, April 02, 2016

the saturday man

what weather is the fault of climate change?

capitalism not always the route to democracy

there is not enough scrutiny of america's wars

new documents reveal why no one was prosecuted for the financial crisis

how to fight big money in 2016 and beyond
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Friday, April 01, 2016

friday night knife fight

why our economy is like the titanic

our broken environment may be killing a quarter of us all

the return of the d.i.y. abortions

house republicans get secret briefings from koch veterans group

your phone was made by slaves
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

thursday's letter

how 401(k)s have failed the american worker

color inversion can sometimes bring things into focus

will the los angeles river become the playground of the rich?

the case for shutting down the republican party

why is styrofoam still a thing?
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

cupcake wednesday

the urban ethnic shuffle

the marijuana industry's energy footprint is growing

study shows exactly how much illegal immigrants contribute

the life and death of the political bumper sticker

live from metropolis:  an oral history of the justice league

and rip oscar-winning actress, former president of sag, and twins extraordinaire patty duke 








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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

the fishes of tuesday

more plastic than fish in oceans by 2050

wall street bonuses are double the combined salaries of minimum wage workers

the pentagon overpaid $425 million of taxpayer money for official travel

almost everything you buy is killing the rain forest

please stop using 'neanderthal' as an insult, say neanderthal experts


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Monday, March 28, 2016

monday night at fluid

the hope and hype of super delegates

most republicans are embarrassed by trump

trump or clinton: who is better for investors?

what percent are you?

and everybody hates john kasich


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Sunday, March 27, 2016

10 things i hate about commandments

as it our tradition, happy easter!

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on a sunday

arizona wasn't the only state turning people away at the polls

lead poisoning in cleveland is even worse than flint

how forest loss is leading to a rise in human disease

paddles, stun guns and chemical sprays: school discipline in the u.s.

and meet the national parasite collection
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Saturday, March 26, 2016

the saturday boy

and meanwhile, big pharma is still evil

death predicts whether people will vote for trump

why do police have such out-of-date psychological theories?

the most toxic city in america

religion strikes again
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Friday, March 25, 2016

friday night is killing me

how to stop food waste

how big a deal is a raise to a walmart employee?

chances you will be poor may be greater than you think

the american fascist

new alabama law requires castration for certain sex offenders

and it never rains but it pours: rip comedian and meta-sitcom pioneer gary shandling; white shadow star and sag president, character actor ken howard; and baseball great and broadcaster joe garigiola
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Donald Trump? Really?

Millions of working-class Americans are ready and willing to vote for a billionaire who enjoys firing people enough to make a television show out of it? Why not elect a fox to guard the coop then?
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thursdays excursion intermission

florida sun sentinel refuses to endorse any gop candidate

europeans are axious about a trump presidency

meanwhile trump and hillary score historic unfavorable ratings

global warming:  not a new idea

meanwhile, they had to import snow for the iditarod
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

big wednesday

the worst republican responses to brussels - so far

the fuzzy math of mortgage bankers

scientists find alzheimer's treatment that fully restores memory function

everyone is not watched equally

the best and worst states for women in america

and rip former toronto mayor and crackhead rob ford


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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

telegram tuesday

flint could cost $300 b in infrastructure to replace lead pipes

beyond record hot, february was 'astronomical' and 'strange'

a t and t does not care about your privacy

trump's sucker punch may be aiming to knock out democracy

what have we learned since rodney king?
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Monday, March 21, 2016

monday night

over half the world has herpes

the rise of american authoritarianism

the century of the car was a mistake

how to hack your iphone with play doh

is ted cruz the zodiac killer
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Sunday, March 20, 2016

month of sundays

how the housing market exploits the poor

for trump, 'get 'em out' is the new 'you're fired!'

more than 200 patients at nj hospital may have been exposed to hiv

stop paying executives for performance

dear gop: we can't save you if you won't save yourself
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

the moon is always bigger on a saturday night

the disappearing wetlands of california's central valley

mass shootings are contagious

you don't matter to big pharma

as sea levels rise, economic damage piles up even faster

the eagle cam! baby eagles in the nest!






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Friday, March 18, 2016

friday night is killing me

raising the minimum wage doesn't harm local businesses

ketamine found to have an "unbelievable" effect on treating profound depression

yelloestone bison sent to slaughter as park thins herd

what happens when you smoke marijuana every day for 5 years

how to move to canada when trump becomes president, by someone who moved to canada when bush became president
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

thursdays are blue

hillary the hawk

with the possibility of a president trump, nova scotia looks good

america has zero to show for 3 decades of war in the middle east

here's a way to hold wall street accountable

possible new octopus species found near hawaii

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

awake on wednesday

how the republican elite created frankentrump

why student loans are creating a permanent underclass

people worried about robots taking our job need to learn arithmetic

the creepiest channel on youtube

and, crossword puzzle plagiarism!
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

techno tuesday

how an obscure advisor to pat buchanan predicted the trump campaign - in 1996

powerful women were buried at stonehenge

doctors prefer paper diaries to fitbits and food apps

the gop's brutal demographic problem is only getting worse

the only thing a detox will cleanse is your wallet
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Monday, March 14, 2016

monday mundane

why america's worst mayor, rahm emanuel, loves hillary clinton

the 'downton abbey' generals

technical problems top the list of car complaints

us war hawks against iran are merchants of perpetual death

real life jurassic world dinosaurs may be 10 years away

and rip the inventor of email (and the guy who chose the '@' symbol), ray thomlinson






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