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North Korea appeared to use China truck in its first claimed ICBM test http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-china-truck-idUSKBN19P1J3

Howard Dean was the last successful DNC chair. He should have been reelected this year, but people accused him of being too "corporate" and too "white male."

Dow races to new record http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/investing/dow-record-trump-rally-wall-street/index.html The Dow popped 136 points to 21,144 on Thursday, landing at its first record close since March 1. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also finished at all-time highs.

Gun demand on the rise in Chicago, police say http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-gun-demand-rises-legal-firearms/ Illinois State Police say the number of firearm-owner identification applications in Chicago doubled from about 19,600 in 2014 to nearly 39,000 last year. Applications are on pace to surpass that this year.

African-American Miss USA: Health care is a 'privilege' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4506004/Miss-District-Columbia-crowned-Miss-USA-2017.html An African-American nuclear chemist from Washington, DC, won the 2017 edition of Miss USA on Sunday night after telling the audience about her conservative political viewpoints. Kára McCullough, a 25-year-old nuclear chemist who works for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told the audience how she doesn't necessarily view herself as a feminist and said that health care is a privilege and not a right. McCullough said she prefers not to use the word 'feminist,' and instead 'transferred the word feminist to equalism.' In the questions portion, she was also individually asked if affordable healthcare is a right or privilege, responding that she thought that healthcare should only go to those with jobs 'As a government employee, I'm granted health care. And I see firsthand that for one, to have health care, you need to have jobs, so therefore we need to continue to cultivate this environment so that we're given the opportunities to have health care as well as jobs for all Americans worldwide,' she explained.

Whoopi Goldberg demands $3.5 million, an executive producer title and her nemesis - an ABC executive - fired in exchange for her return to The View http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4452798/Whoopi-Goldberg-stay-View-three-conditions.html#ixzz4g8rDEDa8

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of ‘Morning Joe’ Are Engaged http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4472944/Joe-Scarborough-Mika-Brzezinski-set-wed.html Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman, popped the question to Brzezinski, the Democrat daughter of President Carter's national security advisor, while the two were on a romantic trip to the south of France last weekend to celebrate Brzezinski's 50th birthday. The two finally broke their silence on their relationship in an interview with Vanity Fair, detailing the romantic moment and told how President Trump even offered to officiate their wedding at the White House. Their engagement comes a year after Brzezinski's divorce to her first husband was finalized.

Wrong. Most white progressives voted for Obama and supported Keith Ellison for DNC chair, a black Muslim.

Gay porn mogul Michael Lucas calls Muslims ‘Barbarians’ https://unicornbooty.com/michael-lucas-muslims-barbarians/ Discussing the reports of gay men being kidnapped and tortured in Chechnya and gay guts being thrown off of buildings by Daesh/ISIS, Lucas replied: We can’t change their society…. We have to make peace with that fact. What I always recommend is when you see how these people live, what they do, start appreciating more our society. And protect our society from those barbarians as vigorously as they protect their society, their way of living, their way of thinking. When asked who “barbarians” referred to, Lucas replied, “I am referring to the Muslim world. To the world of Islam.” He then reiterated his support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies of extreme vetting and banning of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries — the likes of which have been declared unconstitutional by U.S. courts.

Susan Sarandon Explains Why She’s Hopeful About Trump http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/12/susan-sarandon-explains-why-shes-hopeful-about-trump-video/#ixzz4e85EQa6Y On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” former Bernie supporter Susan Sarandon asserted that Trump is doing a “terrible” job, but that she was feeling hopeful about the passage of single-payer healthcare, which she advocates, because of Trump’s promise of change. “Now, we have a chance to get single-payer [health care] through. There is actually a bill being introduced by Bernie [Sanders]. There’s a lot of other Democrats and Republicans. There are people that are Republicans that voted, they wanted change, they didn’t want the status quo. [Trump] was the only guy that was talking about change.” Sarandon disapproved of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election and voted for Jill Stein.

Donald Trump Jr. Suggests He Might Run for New York Governor http://thehill.com/homenews/news/327536-donald-trump-jr-mentions-a-run-for-new-york-governor-report President Trump’s eldest son is reportedly setting his sights on a future in politics, telling members of an elite gun club that he may consider running for governor of New York. “Don Jr. said he is interested in running for office, such as governor of New York, but the position of mayor of New York would be less interesting to him,” one of the meeting’s attendees told Page Six. "The politics bug bit me,” he said, according to the report.

Russia Bans Image 'Hinting' That Putin Is Gay https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-court-bans-image-suggesting-putin-is-gay-57632 Russia has banned an image showing Vladimir Putin in heavy makeup. In the photograph, Putin has red lips and painted eyelashes, and a suggestive caption reads, “They say there are many of them, but there aren't any among the people I know.”Court records say the image showing Putin in makeup “hints at the Russian president’s allegedly nonstandard sexual orientation.”