News Picks Around 04/27/2016 (give or take)

• Addicting Info
  • Colbert Outs Republicans As The True Weirdos For Obsessing Over Who Goes To The Bathroom (VIDEO)
  • You Won’t Believe What This Michigan Teacher Said That Got Her Fired
  • Watch Chris Christie’s Wife Roll Her Eyes At Trump’s Sexist ‘Woman Card’ Remark (VIDEO)
• America Blog
  • Former VA governor McDonnell to argue before SCOTUS that we have the right to buy influence
  • Two thirds of voter registrations in Kansas currently on hold over proof of citizenship requirement
• Anonymous
  • 28.4K Media How Your Personal P0RN Habits are being Shared with the Entire Internet By: Vandita via anonhq In 2013, Internet p0rn generated more visitors each month than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined. In 2014, users...
  • 9.1K 3 News Man Beaten Then Jailed 3 Days for NOT Stealing a Tomato from Walmart By: Carey Wedler via theantimedia.org Atlanta, GA — An Atlanta, Georgia man has sued an off-duty officer who beat him viciously over...
  • 14.7K 2 Resistance 10 Ways To Survive and Escape Martial Law By: Mark Lawrence via secretsofsurvival.com Violent and horrifying life in a concentration camp is what you may face one day under martial...
• Anti-Media
  • Cops Seize $53,000 Raised for Charity by Christian Band
  • 7 Incredible People Not Named Prince The World Lost in the Past Week
• The Humanist
  • Jamie Raskin, Open Humanist, Wins Maryland Primary Election
  • On the Hill: Senators Discuss Religious Diversity
  • Secularism the Scottish Way: What the US Can Learn from a Majority Non-Religious Country
• The Intercept
  • Former Tax Lobbyists Are Writing the Rules on Tax DodgingLee Fang — 7:14 a.m.A number of lobbyists who represented world-class tax avoiders now occupy top staff positions on the congressional committees that write tax law.
  • Snowden Debates CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on EncryptionJenna McLaughlin — Apr. 26It was Snowden's first public debate. “For the government to unlock everything there has to be a key to everything," he said.
• Alternet
  • Charitable Plutocracy: Bill Gates, Washington State and the Nuisance of Democracy
  • Neoliberalism Is Destroying Almost Everybody's Lives—How Many People Even Know What It Is?
• The Brad Blog
  • Blowback in NC, Calls for Hand-counts in NY: 'BradCast' 4/26/2016
• The Center for Public Integrity
  • Coming Soon: ICIJ to release Panama Papers offshore companies data
• Common Dreams
  • After Bitter Tuesday, Progressives Ask Democratic Party What It Stands For
• Crooks and Liars
  • One-Third Of US Mayors Fear Similar Flint Infrastructure Crisis
• Daily Kos
  • Cartoon: Donald Trump ain't so bad!
• Democracy Now
  • Establishment Democrats Win Senate Primaries in Maryland, Pennsylvania
  • Whistleblowers & Journalist Go on Trial in "Luxembourg Leaks" Case
• Eco Watch
  • Nation’s Leading Yogurt Maker Will Remove GMO Ingredients and Source Milk From Non-GMO Fed Cows
  • 10 States Blocking the Power of the Sun
• FactCheck.org
  • Trump vs. Club for Growth
• Food Safety News
  • Pilgrim’s Pride recalls 4.5 million pounds of chicken products
  • Teach, train, test, repeat — food safety refreshers a must
  • Worldwide human and economic costs of norovirus are huge
• Forward Progressives
  • Thanks to Samantha Bee, Georgia Passes Important Law to Help Protect Rape Victims (Video)
• Headlines and Global News
  • Scientists Find Link Between Arsenic Levels And Infants Who Eat Rice-Based Cereals
• Hot Air
  • Oops. State Department withheld Clinton email which revealed private server for almost 2 years
• Liberal America
  • Ted Cruz Attempts To Pander To Basketball Fans In Indiana, Gets DESTROYED On Twitter
• Liberals Unite
  • Did The Seattle Minimum Wage Increase Cause Economic Ruin? 3 Facts About That.
• Media Matters
  • Here’s What To Avoid When Reporting On Student Debt
• Mediaite
  • Liberal Host Cenk Uygur Hangs All of Bernie's Hopes on 'Probable' FBI Indictment of Hillary
  • An Exasperated Hillary Pushes Back Against Maddow: ‘I Am Ahead!’
• Mic
  • Here's What Getting Spanked as a Kid Did to Your Personality, According to Science
• Mint Press News
  • Hillary Clinton's Corporate Cronyism
  • 3.State Dept Never Heard Of Obama’s ‘No Boots On The Ground’ In Syria
• Mother Jones
  • This Bill Could Make More Kids Obese—and No One Is Talking About It
• The New Civil Rights Movement
  • Bill Allowing Therapists to Refuse Service to LGBT People Becomes Law if Governor Doesn't Veto Today
• New Republic
  • A Rough Night for Democratic Revolutionaries
  • Painted Out of Government Art
• News Corpse
  • Rush Limbaugh Warns Of “A Nuclear Explosion” If Donald Trump Is Denied Nomination
• Occupy
  • Beyond Panama - Why Oxfam's Latest Tax Haven Report Matters
  • Act Out! [60] - What Is Your Life Worth & May Day Paint, Spray and March
• Peoples World
  • Socialism plus markets: Vietnam’s chosen path
  • Low-ball to snowball: Underestimating poverty among older Americans
• Political People Blog
  • Sanders: “We are in this race until the last vote is cast”
  • ‘Bernie or Bust’ Co-Founder : 115,000 Progressives Will Sign Our Pledge To Not Vote For Hillary
• Politifact
  • Says Target installed urinals in a women’s bathroom to "accommodate the ones who have giblets."
• The Progressive
  • Bring on the Bunnies!
• Pro-Publica
  • Vietnam Vets Push VA to Link Bladder Cancer to Agent Orange
• Raw Story
  • Here are the top 7 Carly Fiorina television interview meltdowns ranked
  • ‘Thank you, you idiots’: Watch Maine Gov. Paul LePage melt down after students mock him during speech
  • Honolulu may give quarter million dollars to help megachurch get even more mega
  • Fargo graphics firm with rainbow logo refuses pro-LGBT church’s order for rainbow logo
• Right-Wing Watch
  • Alex Jones: 'Psychopath' Beyoncé Out To 'Ruin Lives' And Destroy America
  • Bryan Fischer: Target's Policy Will Transform The Store Into A Motel For Rebellious Teenagers
  • Jim Bakker: We Are All On Drugs!
• Ring of Fire Network
  • TYT Jimmy Dore Gives A Ray of Hope To Sanders Supporters: “Feel the Bern and Don’t Freak Out!”
  • Hillary Doesn’t Care About Appealing To Bernie Voters – The Young Turks
  • Congressional ‘Payday Pals’ Exposed – Thom Hartmann
• Salon
  • Democrats, this is why you need to fear Hillary Clinton: The NY Times is absolutely right — she’s a bigger hawk than the Republicans
  • When celebrity endorsements go bad: How Bernie super-fan Tim Robbins became a cautionary tale
  • A symbol of our steep decline: Donald Trump has unwittingly exposed America for what it’s become
• The Daily Beast
  • Burglar Sues Man Who Shot Him: ‘I’m Lucky to Be Alive’
• Talking Points Memo
  • This Is Simply Awesome
  • Campus Talk By Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos Goes Insanely Off Rails (VIDEO)
• The Daily Caller
  • Gingrich Tells The Republican Establishment To 'Get Over It'
  • VA Appoints Two New Hospital Directors With Serious Scandals In Their Pasts
• Think Progress
  • The Supreme Court Just Reacquainted This Police Department With The First Amendment
  • GOP Candidate Calls For Banning Everyone From The Middle East
  • The Growing Crisis Of Workplace Violence Facing The Country’s Nurses
• Thom Hartmann
  • Fructose alters hundreds of brain genes, which can lead to a wide range of diseases
• True Activist
  • 68 Activism Elephant Dies While Giving Tourists Rides In 104 F Degree Heat It may look cool to get your photo snapped while riding an elephant in the jungle, but there’s a horrifying backstory that...
• Truth-Dig
  • The Endgame of 2016’s Anti-establishment Politics
  • Michigan Official Tried to Manipulate Lead Tests—Eight Years Ago
• Truthout
  • How Capitalism and Racism Support Each Other
  • GOP Mega-Donors So Frustrated by Their Failure to Buy Elections That Some Are Bowing Out
• U.S. Right to Know
  • Disney Tried to Suppress Food Study it Funded
  • Big Campaign Cash for Clinton from Monsanto Lobbyist
• U.S. Uncut
  • Voters Report Suspicious Irregularities in Three Different Primary States In what is becoming an outrageously predictable trend, Hillary Clinton...
  • New York’s Attorney General Just Announced an Investigation of the Primary Fiasco
• Vice News
  • The CIA Illegally Let the Wrong People Do Intelligence Work, Declassified Report Finds
  • What It's Really Like to Fight for the Islamic State VICE News has obtained battle footage taken from the headcam of a dead Islamic State fighter. Here's what you won't see in IS propaganda.
• Wonkette
  • O’Reilly Henchbro Jesse Watters Totally Tricks Millennials Into Saying Fairly Reasonable Things
  • Exciting NRA Ad: Hollywood Elitists Want To Take Your Guns, Laugh When You Die
  • ‘Jill And Jessa’ Duggar Aired The Birth Of Squashy Spurgeon And We Wish We Had No Eyes
• World Economic Forum
  • Future of the Internet 10 forces that threaten to tear the internet apart The internet is at a crossroads, with a number of troubling trends threatening to break it apart. Max Galka 25 Apr 2016
  • Innovation Too poor for a patent? A new scheme gives inventors a helping hand Corey Salsberg 27 Apr 2016
  • Let’s ditch the economy of the 1% and replace it with a human economy Winnie Byanyima 20 Apr 2016
• World Socialist Website
  • Oppose imperialist war! Join the International May Day Online Rally!
  • Ruling upholds North Carolina anti-voting rights law
  • Union forces AT&T West workers to continue working after contract expiration
• World War 4 Report
  • THE 'FREE TRADE' ASSAULT ON CLEAN WATER
  • THE FIREWALL CAFE CONTROVERSY
• Your News Wire
  • Police: Prince Was Murdered
  • Video Shows The Grim Reality Of Life As ISIS Soldier
• Zero Hedge
  • America's Entitled (And Doomed) Upper Middle Class