If Donald Trump Reviewed Literary Classics

Donald Trump’s tweets reveal an obvious truth. He’s missed his calling as a writer of the world’s most singularly intense CliffsNotes. SAD!

Josh Marshall at TPM has pointed out that a lot of Trump's tweets follow a very distinctive formula.

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Each tweet is made up of two short declarative sentences, followed by a short, derisive blast at the end.

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Once you start to notice it, you can't get it out of your head. This is how it works. It's very effective!

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13 New Facts We Learned About Magic In America From J.K. Rowling

Rowling is rolling out new information about North American wizards throughout this week.

Tuesday morning, J.K. Rowling released the first installment of her new writing about magic in America on Pottermore. Here's what we learned:

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Wizards knew about America before Muggles did.

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"Muggle" in America is called "No-Maj," which stands for "No Magic."

This was revealed back in November, but it bears repeating, as we'll be hearing the term a lot around Fantastic Beasts.

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From the Middle Ages on, the Native American magic community was in contact with the magic communities in Europe and Africa through magical transportation and "visions and premonitions."

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Because Life Is Meaningless, A Dude Misheard Hindi Lyrics In Harry Potter's Hogwarts Choir

Cannot unhear.

Remember the awesome "Double Trouble" by the Frog Choir in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban? Well, this guy just turned it on its head by subbing the song with ridiculous Hinglish lyrics.

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Watch the bizarrely epic video here:

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Feeling extremely confused right now.

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20 Incredible Books From The Past Year That You Need To Read Right Now

Here’s the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction 2016.

The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has just announced its 2016 longlist.

The longlist, comprised of 20 books, celebrates the best fiction written by women. Here are the books the judges selected:

Bailey's Prize / Via womensprizeforfiction.co.uk

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16 YA Books You'll Want To Read This Spring

Time to start book budgetin’.

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G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

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29 Things Every '90s Kid Definitely Experienced Growing Up

That Hubba Bubba smell tho.

Waiting for your computer to go to sleep so you could watch the screensaver.

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Storing all your prized possessions together.

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Fearing for your goddamn life when playing SkiFree.

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Or having consecutive heart attacks with every jump in Donkey Kong.

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These Guys Have Brought Your Favourite "Goosebumps" Covers To Life

Readers beware, you’re in for a scare.

These two artists from Australia have collaborated to bring iconic Goosebumps covers to life.

Benjamin Nichols, a photographer, and John English, a professional retoucher, embarked on the collaboration as a tribute to Tim Jacobus, the artist behind the original Goosebumps covers from the '90s.

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They perfectly recreated the skeleton family for Say Cheese and Die...

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...reminded you how creepy scarecrows are...

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...and used an everyday sink to bring this book to life.

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19 Reasons Why You Need To Be Watching "The Magicians"

“Magic is a drug” = The tagline for The Magicians but also a truth.

First of all, the magic in the show will make you feel like you're lost in some enchanted world.

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Because you basically are.

ACCEPT ME INTO BRAKEBILLS, PLEASE.

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And the powers each character has will give you serious #MagicGoals.

SyFy / Via Twitter: @DoctorLuke92

Also there's hot magical sex where they just start floating in the middle of it.

Would be down. Or up. Whatever, just call me.

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