Rachel Dolezal Now Claiming to Be Founding Member of Bad Brains: The 37-year-old Dolezal claims to “have been there since day one” when describing her association with the band that formed in 1977 (when Dolezal was less than a year old). (Hard Times)

Biology Finally Explains Why Honey Badger Really Don’t Give a Shit: Not even about venomous snakes. (Slate)

New study finds battleground state polling worked until 2012 election: Excluding cellphone-only voters from poll surveys in last election skewed results to GOP. Yeah, because only old people still have landlines. And vote for Republicans. (Science Daily)

Legendary Burlesque Performer, Blaze Starr, RIP Known for her striking red hair and voluptuous figure, Starr often performed with dangerous cats, including a baby black panther. Her trademark routine was “the exploding couch.” (World of Wonder)

Can Hillary match Bernie’s frenzied fans? The Sanders surge must look like a bad movie to Hillary Clinton. (Politico)

New Jersey Lawmakers’ Plan To Circumvent Chris Christie, Start Automatic Voter Registration: NJ’s Democrat-controlled legislature plans to introduce and fast-track the “Democracy Act” this week which would make it the second state to adopt automatic voter registration (Think Progress)

Conservatives distrusted McCain and Romney, but they utterly despise Jeb: Jeb Bush is officially in the presidential race—and the reviews from his own party are abysmal. (No More Mister Nice Blog)

Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938- 2014): Yoko Ono, Bjork, and M.I.A., Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos and others. (Open Culture)

Donald Trump once proposed a more left-wing tax policy than Bernie Sanders? Yes! In 1999 Trump proposed a one-time wealth tax of 14.25 percent on all individuals and trusts with a net worth in excess of $10 million. The proceeds would be used to wipe out the national debt, with the savings in interest payments going to shore up Social Security and pay for middle-class tax cuts. (Vox)

That Time the Middle East Exploded—and Nixon Was Drunk: The British Prime Minister was calling to speak about the Middle East but President Richard Nixon—ravaged by more than four years of war in Vietnam, 15 months of Watergate investigations and countless nights of intense insomnia—was incapacitated. (Politico)

Viagra users, pregnant women and babies have been advised not to drink the tap water in Columbus, Ohio: Why Viagra users you ask? (Mother Jones)

Obama Is No Coward: President Obama didn’t fail because he lacks courage: He failed because he represents the country’s most powerful interests. (Jacobin)

Dying white blood cells filmed for the first time: Footage shows dying cells alerting neighboring cells to their plight. (Wired UK)