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Michael Moore Waves ‘We Are All Muslim’ Sign Outside Trump Tower

Hyper-liberal Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore challenged Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump by holding a sign reading “We Are All Muslim” outside Trump Tower on Wednesday before penning an open letter to the candidate on Facebook.

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Rapper Chuck D: Ferguson Police Are Scarier Than ISIS

Public Enemy’s Chuck D chided rapper Nelly this week for canceling tour dates in the UK over terrorism fears — because, he says, police in Ferguson, Missouri, near Nelly’s hometown of St. Louis are just as scary as ISIS.

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CA Water Board Nixes New Fish-Over-People Drought Plan

The California State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to back away from a controversial plan that would have held water back from cities and farmers in order to save an endangered species of salmon.

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Crybaby Tarantino: R2-D2 Stole My Cinerama Dome!

Quentin Tarantino joined Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show Wednesday morning for a good old-fashioned venting session, where the director complained that Disney muscled his film “The Hateful Eight” out of Los Angeles’ Cinerama Dome theater in order to screen the new “Star Wars” there instead.

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Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Dethroned as Top Holiday Song

For two decades, the sound of Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit “All I Want for Christmas is You,” blaring through retail stores as shoppers milled about picking up last-minute gifts, was as ubiquitous a Christmas tradition as egg nog by the fireplace—but a new song has now emerged as the king of Christmas retail.

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GOP Hits Dianne Feinstein for Blocking Drought Fix

House Republicans from California lashed out at Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Friday for blocking drought legislation language from a larger government funding spending bill.

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Feds Deny Mistaking K-Pop Girl Band for Prostitutes

A South Korean girl band made waves this week when its management team said band members were detained and denied entry at Los Angeles International Airport because authorities believed they were prostitutes — but a federal official has since denied the claims, saying the group did not possess the proper visas to enter the United States.

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Camille Paglia to Taylor Swift’s #GirlSquad: Drop the ‘Nazi Barbie Routine’

Feminist cultural critic Camille Paglia has some advice for Taylor Swift’s #GirlSquad and the young Hollywood feminists: drop the male-bashing “gender factionalism that thrives on grievance” and instead focus on “mentoring, exchanging advice” and the “results-oriented teamwork” that men have used to help each other advance.

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Author Defends James Deen: Rape ‘Witch Hunt’

Porn star James Deen, accused of rape or sexual assault by nearly a dozen women, has backup in the form of renowned author and columnist Bret Easton Ellis, who likened the damning allegations against porn’s “boy next door” to a “ridiculous witch hunt.”

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‘Hoverboards’ Banned from U.S. Airlines

The nation’s three largest airlines have banned so-called “hoverboards” from both overhead bins and cargo holds as concerns mount over the safety of the popular toys.

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San Francisco: Live in FedEx Truck for $600

Feeling squeezed by exploding rent increases in the Golden Gate City? Fear not, for there is a refurbished FedEx truck with your name on it–at a steal.

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Claim: James Deen Breaks California Condom Rule

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has launched an investigation into embattled porn star James Deen’s adult film production company, James Deen Productions, for alleged violations of a mandatory condom law on Los Angeles-area film shoots.

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Drought: New Plan to ‘Save’ Salmon–and Starve Farms

California water officials introduced a tentative plan Tuesday to keep more water in Shasta Lake over the upcoming year in order to protect endangered winter-run Chinook salmon. However, the proposal is likely to infuriate farmers who may see water allocation drop, while marine scientists are skeptical the plan will be enough to save the imperiled fish.

Chinook salmon restoration (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Robert Redford: People Are ‘Seeing Climate Change from Their Homes’

Actor Robert Redford joined world leaders, legislators, and a handful of celebrities at the Cop21 international climate change conference in Paris over the weekend, where he urged attendees to “change the momentum” to halt global warming and declared that “people are feeling climate change in their own backyard, seeing climate change from their homes.”

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