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 - Murdered son, abandoned mother: Tamir Rice, police violence & the lasting grief of Black parents
 - Democrats’ “protect Hillary” plan: How the DNC’s thin debate schedule hands Clinton the advantage
 - A president for the tinfoil hat crowd: Mike Huckabee has his finger on America’s (electromagnetic) pulse
 - Nebraska woman files lawsuit against all the homosexuals for being gay
 - Aide to Kamala Harris arrested for pretending to run 3,000-year-old rogue police force (seriously)
 - Justin Timberlake’s hilarious new tequila ad settles it: He needs his own sketch comedy show
 - “Let’s get rid of Ted Cruz!”: Jon Stewart axes GOP’s weakest link for 2016
 - Sorry, Rick Santorum: The Duggars are now a Huckabee family
 - Florida couple convicted for having sex on the beach — and could face up to 15 years behind bars
 - Here’s how you school climate deniers: The anti-science movement’s biggest fallacies, debunked
 - Gun nuts lose their damned minds: The common-sense gun safety bill that’s giving the NRA & GOP conniptions
 - Amy Schumer tears into TV’s boys’ club with brilliant “12 Angry Men” parody: “Is she hot enough for basic television?”
 - Astronaut twins on the human body, Mars and space espresso
 - Leaving your kid in the car is not criminal: Cops, judges and busy-bodies need some common sense now
 - ISIS claims to have 71 soldiers in 15 states ready to kill Pam Geller and any who defend her
 - Jon Stewart is ready to be done with “The Daily Show”: “As much as I like work, nothing beats not working”
 - Senate Republicans are using border security as an excuse to cripple national park protections
 - You can’t pin this one on women: Joss Whedon says it’s “horses**t” that hectoring feminists chased him off Twitter
 - America’s ugly whitesplaining epidemic: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the media’s utter cluelessness
 - “Grace and Frankie”: This thin “Transparent” knock-off pits gay men against older women, and nobody wins
 - Carly Fiorina is finally getting the hang of Internet trolling — she bought SethMeyers.org
 - There are trillions and trillions of habitable planets — why haven’t we encountered aliens yet?
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 - CNN’s Chris Cuomo gets Twitter-spanked after boneheaded First Amendment gaffe
 - Prince to perform “Rally 4 Peace” concert in Baltimore: “A symbolic message of our shared humanity”
 - Baltimore’s secret history of death: Racism, corporate greed & the most infamous mass-poisoning in American history
 - Bill & Hillary’s hyper-capitalist disaster: How the Clintons can apologize for a decade of deadly policies
 - Key & Peele imagine a world without trigger-happy cops: “It’s like a Utopia for black people!”
 - Meet the penis worm, the tooth-lined specimen from Hell
 - The terrorist attack that changed America — and it wasn’t 9/11: “The public reaction was even worse”
 - The world reached a scary emissions milestone in March — and it’s only going to get worse
 - Activists who raised $60,000 for Tamir Rice’s family demand to know where the money went
 - “Like taking the bar exam at Coachella”: 20 stars on why they quit Twitter
 - Video captures vicious anti-gay attack on couple dining at NYC barbecue joint
 - A full plate of hate: Texas lawmakers literally can’t clear all the anti-woman, anti-LGBT measures off their desks
 - Pamela Geller’s “South Park” idiocy: Satire, hatred and the right’s faith-based fear-mongering
 - Joe Scarborough is a petulant child: Low-rated morning host shows insufferable arrogance, even when he’s wrong
 - Political cartoons matter: Don’t overlook this other PEN award in the Charlie Hebdo debate
 - Jon Stewart decimates newly minted GOP candidates one by one
 - Marco Rubio is a troll, not a senator: How the ’16 hopeful went from “serious” legislator to hot mess
 - Tom Brady probably knew about the deflated balls, according to NFL report
 - Abandon your bipartisan fantasies: The Baltimore uprising won’t make GOP get serious about urban reform
 - “The south will rise again,” apparently on prom night: The giant parenting fail behind this viral flag-waving photo
 - Dinesh D’Souza’s request for a “summer break” from community service gets slapped down by federal judge
 - Amy Schumer’s subtle brilliance: “12 Angry Men” isn’t feel-good feminism, it’s crushingly dark satire
 - Radio is killing the guitar solo — and we’ll lose more than our air-guitar skills when it’s gone
 - Alberta just elected a bunch of Keystone XL-hating socialists into office
 - Conservative columnist: Obama let Baltimore burn in order to postpone 2016 presidential elections
 - See George Carlin “live”: Holograms of dead comedians are coming
 - McDonald’s new Hamburglar is a flame-broiled pile of hipster garbage
 - NFL’s epidemic of violence against women continues: 49ers’ Ahmad Brooks accused of sexual assault
 - Natalie Portman condemns Netanyahu’s re-election: “I find his racist comments horrific”
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 - Punched, groped, beer thrown in my face: Being a woman at a concert can be terrifying
 - Please, please, please don’t let the Smiths reunite
 - We need David Letterman’s America: How the Leno/Fallon/Colbert choice defines us and how we see the world
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 - Authorities find fake skeletons in underwater lawn chairs