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After supporting screenwriters and actors through their monthslong strikes, film and TV crew workers with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are launching a reform caucus.

As space travel changes, not every single person in space will be an astronaut; eventually, someone will have to clean the space toilets. And when that day comes, we’ll need to talk about labor in space.

As with the best science fiction, Lem’s novel “The Invincible” has as much to teach us about our present situations as any futures we may face.

Massachusetts’ coldest days not nearly so cold.

How it works, who it applies to and more

This community-developed plan could serve as a model for how to simultaneously decarcerate and decarbonize.

Nine Maryland Senators from the Montgomery County County Council have been threatening to cut funding to CASA because of a pro-Palestinian tweet (since withdrawn). Below is a statement from Maryland ACLU and two open letters suporting CASA.

Locking people up in mental health facilities doesn’t automatically cure them. And considering mentally ill people are far more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators of violence, it does not adequately address the mass shooting crisis.

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