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Urgent: Work and Family Mobility Act

vendredi 27 août 2021 à 02:00

Massachusetts residents: call on the state legislature to pass the Work and Family Mobility Act.

This would allow anyone living in the state to apply for a driver's license without proving permission to be in the US.

Women's rights in Afghanistan

vendredi 27 août 2021 à 02:00

The major US media ignore the issue of women's rights in Afghanistan except when they can use it to argue for war.

Use of spyware against activists

jeudi 26 août 2021 à 02:00

Bahrain used the Pegasus spyware to crack the phones of Bahraini activists.

Anti-mask fanatics at school

jeudi 26 août 2021 à 02:00

Anti-mask fanatics are besieging US school boards demanding that they not require people in schools to wear masks. When a board does so, some of them call the board members "Nazis", while others threaten like Nazis.

Nuclear power plant shutting down

jeudi 26 août 2021 à 02:00

The San Onofre nuclear power plants have been shut down, but the nuclear waste is buried nearby.

The article provides some examples of a general problem with nuclear power plants: the tendency to do a bad job of maintenance, ignoring their problems.

To find a place for nuclear waste that will be safe for tens of thousands of years is a real engineering challenge, but finding a place that is safe for 25 years from well-known threats is surely much easier. I think that the people who selected a place near a beach on the Pacific ocean, an earthquake fault, an important transport artery and a major metropolitan area were not being careful.