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Bernie Sanders is on a roll after sweeping last Saturday’s three Democratic caucuses and according to a CBS/YouGov poll issued today, he has a narrow lead in Wisconsin, where 96 delegates are at stake on Tuesday. The same poll shows Clinton holding a ten-point lead in New York’s April 19th primary. This weekend the two campaigns are battling over proposed …

JMG reader Alan directs us to the below clip from the Human Rights Campaign which picks apart the many lies North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has spewed in the wake of national condemnation of his state’s hate bill. The clip notes that Politifact has given McCrory their “false” rating for his claim that HB2 doesn’t take away any existing rights. …

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has posted some of the full performances from this year’s installment of Broadway Backwards, where men perform show tunes written for women and vice versa. Watch as Tony-winning legend Chita Rivera (she’s 83!) takes on All I Think About Is Love, from Chicago. Other highlights below include Jay Johnson’s Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend, from …

Mediaite recaps: This week’s Saturday Night Live opened, as expected, with a sketch devoted to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump‘s troubles with women, but approached the subject by lampooning colorful Donald Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes, who starred in her own bonkers CNN segment this week. In between the repartee’ between SNL‘s Kate Bolduan and the quirky Hughes, the bit …

This morning haters from the Keep NC Safe Coalition unfurled a massive banner bearing the alleged mugshots of trans people as they faced down chanting LGBT activists across a downtown Asheville street. See video below. It’s not yet known what crimes the depicted trans people are accused of having committed, but the message, obviously, is that since some trans people …

The American Public Transportation Association, which was founded in 1882 and has 1500 member organizations, says they really wish they could cancel their May convention in Charlotte over North Carolina’s hate law, but are unable to nullify their contract. From their statement: APTA is committed to being inclusive and does not condone discrimination of any kind against anyone who works …

It was 30 years ago this week that Pet Shop Boys released their first album, Please, which propelled their update of 1984’s West End Girls to the top position on pop charts worldwide. Yesterday the synthpop duo released their 13th full-length album, Super, which has already yielded the well-received single, The Pop Kids. All of the tracks from Super have …

As I noted several days ago, organizers of High Point Market Week, which bills itself as the world’s largest home furnishings trade show, say they are being deluged with cancellations in the wake of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signing his state’s hate bill into law. Yesterday the 26,000-member American Society of Interior Designers issued a statement backing the boycott …

Yesterday afternoon Mississippi Democrats used a procedural tactic to temporarily delay their state’s anti-LGBT hate bill, which is still likely to reach the desk of Gov. Phil Bryant as early as Monday. Today NOM president Brian Brown’s offshoot group ActRight launched a petition urging Bryant to sign to bill. An excerpt: All across America, LGBT extremists are working overtime to …

Unsurprising. Via the Daily Beast: Willie Robertson, CEO of Duck Commander and star of reality TV series Duck Dynasty, has joined the Fox News Channel as a contributor, the network announced Thursday afternoon. He will host a Fox News Radio podcast, aptly titled The Willie Robertson Podcast, which is set to launch on Monday April 4. As a paid contributor, …