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Dangerous Finds: Orson Welles porn; ClickHole vs BuzzFeed; Will American workers get a raise soon?
06.08.2015
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Dangerous Finds: Orson Welles porn; ClickHole vs BuzzFeed; Will American workers get a raise soon?


 
NSFW: Watch the Porn Scene Edited by Orson Welles! He owed the director a favor, apparently. (Vulture)

Bernie Sanders: ‘We’re Going to Win New Hampshire’ Bernie-mania is clearly a real thing as support surges for the maverick Senator from Vermont. (Bloomberg)

How black kids like the ones in McKinney can stay safe around cops: Stop being black I wonder if he feared for his own life? (Vox)

Glenn Beck: We Have 10,000 Pastors Who Are Willing To Die Resisting Anti-Christian Persecution In America “Society is about to collapse and America needs passionate pastors who are willing to give up their lives if necessary in the fight against the coming persecution of Christians” sez Glenn Beck to a small audience of senior citizen doofuses who probably believe him. (Right Wing Watch)

Man wrongfully imprisoned for over three years on Riker’s Island commits suicide: Sen. Rand Paul implored a crowd in Concord, N.H., to “think about Kalief Browder and think about how his friends must feel about American justice, how his parents must feel and about how his community feels.” (The Hill)

Bobby Jindal’s desperate home-school Hail Mary is 2016′s strangest strategy: “Religious freedom” + homeschoolers It seems like a tiny GOP sliver, but a strategist to watch thinks otherwise. Jindal is Louisiana’s most ambitious politician since David Duke. The least popular governor in Louisiana history is also likely to fare about as well as the former KKK leader did when he ran for the GOP nomination in 1992. (Salon)

Wow. ClickHole How the Onion spinoff designed to mock the Internet (well BuzzFeed) became the best thing on it. “The quiz tells you that you are from Massachusetts. You are not from Massachusetts.” (Slate)

House GOPers: Obamacare Fix? Ha, Our Constituents Don’t Get Subsidies! “Sorry poors, but fuck you, none of you vote for us anyway.” (Talking Points Memo)

White House poised to hike wages for millions of Americans: The Labor Department could propose a rule that would raise the current overtime threshold — $23,660 – to as much as $52,000. And the Republicans can’t do much about it. The overtime threshold is not indexed to inflation and has been updated only once since 1975. (Politico)

Game of Thrones is secretly all about climate change: Did you know that Game of Thrones is secretly about the world’s terrible failure to stop climate change? Well it is. (Vox)

Liberals Make Big Comeback in 2015, Poll Analysis Finds A new analysis of Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll data finds a marked increase in the share of registered voters identifying themselves as liberals, and an even bigger drop in the share saying they are conservatives. (Wall Street Journal)

Wisconsin straw poll surprise: Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend. The Vermont senator was a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent. Sanders received 208 of 511 delegate votes at the state convention in Milwaukee on Saturday, while Clinton won votes from 252 of the delegates, leaving her just short of a majority. (Politico)

The Cost of China’s Industrialization: 700 Million People with Diabesity /Cancer /Lung Disease and 225 Million with Mental Disorders That the China Story is going to implode is already baked into the public health catastrophe that will unfold with a vengeance in the coming decade. (Of Two Minds)

U.S. Congress Should Have No Part In International Climate Deal, French Minister Says Laurent Fabius, at the helm of climate talks expected to culminate in Paris in December merely says what everyone is thinking. (Think Progress)

What Kind of Mayor Was Bernie Sanders? In his eight years as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Bernie Sanders revitalized the economy and solidified support for progressive municipal policies. (The Nation)

Below, Robin Gibb performs his solo numbers “Saved by the Bell” and “One Million Years” on Spanish television, 1970. From the amazing new three CD set, Saved By The Bell: The Collected Works Of Robin Gibb 1968-1970 (3CD). The opening line of “One Million Years” is “I’m dead.” Robin’s songs were always the melancholy ones in the Bee Gees repertoire, weren’t they?
 

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