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Applause! Hillary Clinton was just one of the millions to watch Lady Gaga rock out during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, February 5.

The "Edge of Glory" singer, 30, made subtle political statements during her 13-minute performance. She sang a few lyrics from Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and went on to belt out her LGBTQ anthem "Born This Way."

The former secretary of state, 69, reposted an Us Weekly tweet that read, "This land was made for you and me" before adding her two cents. "I'm one of 100 million #SuperBowl fans that just went #Gaga for the Lady," Clinton tweeted. "& her message to all of us."

Hours before taking the stage, the American Horror Story actress thanked her fans for their support via Instagram. "I want to say thank you to my fans for cheering me on all these years. There will not be any guest performers tonight, I'm doing these 13 minutes solo! I dedicate every second to the love, diversity, compassion, and wild spirit of our fan base," she wrote. "To that kid who felt unwanted, or the grown up who remembers how hard it was to find acceptance. This is for you. It is also for those whose hearts and minds have opened to our message. Thank you for believing in us so we could be here today little monsters this is YOUR stage. And I'm gonna leave my heart on it so you never forget it. Let's do this. Xoxo Love, Gaga p.s I LOVE YOU SO MUCH."

Last month, Clinton, the first-ever female presidential nominee for a major political party, also took to Twitter to commend those who participated in the Women's March on Washington in response to her election rival Donald Trump's presidency.

"Thanks for standing, speaking & marching for our values @womensmarch. Important as ever. I truly believe we're always Stronger Together," she wrote on January 21. "Scrolling through images of the #womensmarch is awe-inspiring. Hope it brought joy to others as it did to me."

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If youre a Trump supporter, you might see the Patriots stunning come-from-behind Superbowl victory as a miracle of hard work and perserverance. If youre a Hillary supporter you might see it as the Falcons simply choking hard in the last quarterof the game.

Such are the days where everything, even the Superbowl, is bogged down in tedious political commentary, especially as Trump is close friends with the Patriots top brass.

As Falcons are the biggest chokers of 2017, they are unsurprisingly being compared to the biggest choker of 2016, Hillary Clinton. In both cases prognosticators gave themchances of winning north of 90 percent, which they completely blew in their own hubris.

Now people on the internet are firing up photoshop to make the connection stick.

Some on Reddit are already blaming the Falcons defeat, not on the fact they could barelyscore points in the second half, but on the Russians, of course. Jill Stein needs to step in and demand a score recount.

Even many prominent liberals were acting the same smug way they did on election night until they started melting down and covering their tracks.

So like everything in American life right now, the Superbowl isa direct analogy of presidential politics. And like after the real election its another win for Trump.

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Senators who supportBetsy DeVos foreducation secretary are supporting the resegregation of schools, according to Felicia Wong, a Clinton ally and president of the Roosevelt Institute.

As noted by Politico, the Roosevelt Institute a liberal nonprofit was hunting for hundreds of candidates to fill government roles in a Clinton administration and Wong was in direct contact with members of the transition team and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta back when Clinton was expected to win the presidency.

Now, Wong is leading the charge against DeVos, Trumps nominee for education secretary. In a column for CNN on Monday Wong argued that DeVoss support for school choice which proponents argue helps minority students by allowing them to attend otherwise unaffordable private schools is akin to supporting resegregation of schools.

Wong claims that so much of the current movement in favor of school choice and religious education carries the stain of racial animosity, even in dog-whistle form. School choice, she claims is about the kind of freedom associated with the flight away from integration and toward racial isolation. According to Wong, DeVoss support for school choice means shewould be a Secretary of Education associated with a more exclusive and racially exclusionary vision.

Wongs article leaves out the fact that Hillary Clinton used to support charter schools. The Wall Street Journal editorial board argued last July that Clintons flip-flop on charter schools wasapolitical forfeit to powerful teachers unions.

We remember when Mrs. Clinton wasnt so easily intimidated by unions, the WSJ charged.

Bill Clintons grant program took the movement from a few schools to thousands. In Mrs. Clintons 1996 memoir, It Takes a Village, she wrote that she favored promoting choice among public schools, much as the Presidents Charter Schools Initiative encourages. And heres Mrs. Clinton in 1998: The President believes, as I do, that charter schools are a way of bringing teachers and parents and communities together.'

The WSJ editors noted that Mrs. Clintons switcheroo follows the pro-union turn of the Democratic Party platform. This years original draft was at least mildly pro-reform, but the final version opposes using test scores to evaluate teachers, encourages parents to opt out of testing for their kids, and endorses multiple restrictions on charters that would make them much less effective.

They concluded: In this election year of bad policy choices, the Democratic retreat from school choice and accountability is the most dispiriting.

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Stanford Study Finds Fake News Didn't Tip Election Against Clinton Observer Fake news has been frequently cited as the reason for Hillary Clinton's presidential election loss to Donald Trump. Indeed, the sensationalism surrounding the term has provoked other fake or misleading news articles to promote this post-election narrative.

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Hillary Clinton has declared that "the future is female" and applaudedlast month's women's marches inthe first video statement she's made since Donald Trump's inauguration.

The former Secretary of State spoke of the need for "strong women to step up and speak out" and applauded those who did so over the inauguration weekend.

"Just look at the amazing energy we saw last month as women organised a march that galvanised millions of people all over our country and across the world," Clinton said in the video, which was created for the 2017 MAKERS conference.

The MAKERS is a storytelling platform that promotes and celebrates women. This year,its conference has the theme "be bold," and includes speakers such as Patricia Arquette, Sophia Bush, Gloria Steinem and Sheryl Sandberg among other excellent women. Topics covered will include "changing perspectives" and "a bold you."

In her video message Clinton took the opportunity to encourage others to help shape the world to be better -for women now and future generations.

"We need you to dare greatly and lead boldly. So please, set an example for every women and girl out there who's worried about what the future holds and wonders whether our rights, opportunities and values will endure."

She also echoed her famous Children's Defense Fund Gala speech, saying, "And remember, you are the heroes and history makers, the glass ceiling breakers of the future. As I've said before, I'll say again, never doubt you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and every opportunity in the world."

Clinton has shown her support for women since conceding to Donald Trump in the presidential race in other ways too. Last month she tweeted this message in solidarity with those involved in the Women's Marches.

And she added her voice to the condemnation of Donald Trump's travel ban.

Meanwhile yesterday Clinton voiced her approval of Lady Gaga's performance at the Super Bowl.

Earlier this month it was announced that Clinton is working on a book of personal essays and her favourite quotes.

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