Happy Wednesday. On this day in 2008 Fidel Castro left his job as president of Cuba, not retiring until the age of 82, which kind of undermines the appeal of Communism.

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DONALD TRUMP EASILY WON the Nevada Republican Caucus Tuesday night, his third straight Republican primary win and the only thing that happened in Nevada on Tuesday that wasn’t produced exclusively by under-paid service workers.

“I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED,” the billion-dollar baby said, in his victory speech in which he listed all the demographic groups he won – the young, the old, the highly educated, the not, evangelicals and his core audience: the men who are furious because you told them that pro wrestling is fake.

TRUMP'S SHARE OF THE VOTE was close to 50 percent, shattering the notion there’s a “ceiling” to his support. And it’s now increasingly clear we’re living in a nightmare version of the future that was obviously disrupted by a rogue time traveler or a $1 bet between the Koch brothers.

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ON TUESDAY SENATE REPUBLICANS announced that they officially will not even pretend to consider President Obama’s appointment to the Supreme Court seat left vacant when Antonin Scalia died on February 13 of obesity, diabetes and coronary artery disease, AKA Obama murdering him.

THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED before in American history, ever.

“THIS NOMINATION WILL BE DETERMINED by whoever wins the presidency in the polls,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

WELL, 126 MILLION AMERICANS went to the polls in 2012, and nearly 66 million voted for Barack Obama. They probably understood there might be a Supreme Court vacancy, seeing as the average age of the Justices was higher than that of the Golden Girls during their final season.

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WE'RE NEARING THE END of Black History Month, or as the great patriot with the flag on his house next door likes to call it: “What about white history month?”

IT'S A CLICHÉ loved by people who want to pretend that racism ended the day Sammy Davis Jr. kissed Archie Bunker on the cheek on TV 30-plus years ago.

IT'S LIKE ASKING, “Why aren’t there European-American Reservations?” It just isn’t necessary.

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EX-SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON told a CNN Democratic town hall last night that she would release transcripts of her remarks to Wall Street bankers as long as “everybody does it, and that includes the Republicans.”

THAT WOULD MEAN REPUBLICANS such as Sen. Ted Cruz, who is married to a Goldman Sachs employee and has thus spoken to her in particularly (prepare to shudder) intimate ways. Clinton’s rules are clear: The world can read what she told the Wall Street banks if it also agrees to read lusty pillowtalk between Ted Cruz and his wife.

BY CALLING FOR THE CRUZ TRANSCRIPTS in exchange for hers, Clinton is betting that reporters will be so repulsed by sweet nothings between a doughy neo-McCarthyite and his unblinking wife that they’ll drop their demands to read Clinton’s own discourse with bankers. Clever!

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NO, FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR DID NOT CALL REPUBLICANS a "vile, petulant, hateful passel of obstructionists." But if she had, we'd definitely follow her on Twitter.

THE DESCENT OF FLORIDA MAN—Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee Bubbles is reportedly living out his twilight years in Florida, because proximity to Disney World is important when you miss being surrounded by children.

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