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  Gunman in custody after shots fired outside White House correspondents’ dinner ballroom. One officer injured, no other casualties reported Sunday Dose of Democracy: VIDEO OF THE DAY:  Trump gives pathetic and all-too-predictable response to White House Correspondents' Dinner attack Speaking just hours after a lone gunman reportedly fired multiple shots and was apprehended outside the Washington Hilton Hotel ballroom where the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner was being held last night, Donald Trump decided to spin the affair into — why not — a sales pitch for  his  $400 million dollar ballroom. In other words, there's actually a beneficiary to this disaster, and, wouldn't you know it, it's Donald himself. The self-important man-child is nothing if not consistent in taking the wrong lesson from literally every situation. And not for nothing, the  right-wing messaging machine  was primed and quick to spring into action. Take Action:...

  Trump's approval rating plummets in latest polling "Two ways of calculating": Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices Ah, yes. Two ways of calculating! One the one hand we have mathematics, the unshakeable field of study that has been around for millennia — including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and beyond — upon which empirical science is based, and on the other hand we have...whatever the hell Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump are prattling on about. Why trust that which is demonstrably true and easily proven with the calculator on your phone when you can listen to a guy who cut the penis off a dead raccoon and his dementia-addled boss talk about alternative math that "people understand better?" "Either way, it doesn't make any difference," Donald declared, which is exactly what a privileged nincompoop who's never once been held accountable for being wrong about anything in his life would say. Take Act...