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science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

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china Beijing to base China security agencies in Hong Kong Xeni Jardin

Space Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab David Pescovitz

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b-side Trump administration is drafting plans for corporate moon mining Thom Dunn

tv Nicolas Cage to star as celebrity animal abuser Joe Exotic Rob Beschizza

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News Social security for all — for now Maureen Herman

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COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

Business Netflix launches $100 million coronavirus relief fund to help jobless cast and crew Xeni Jardin

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cartoons Cartoonist sells his "crappy rejected" New Yorker submissions Rusty Blazenhoff