Collette Rutherford
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Collette Rutherford
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Actor, Director & Producing Artistic Director of @InJestTheatre
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Theater Latté Da is accepting applications through October 15 for its NEXT Generation Commission. This $20,000 commission supports the creation and development of a new musical theatre project by a creative team that includes women artists and/or artists of color.
www.latteda.org/next-generat...
Next Generation Commission — Theater Latté Da
Theater Latté Da’s NEXT Generation Commission is designed to support the early, generative stages of a new work—not one that is already in process. Teams may pitch a specific idea for a new musical or...
www.latteda.org
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Mifepristone is safe, effective, and essential. Backed by 100+ studies and trusted by millions of patients over 25 years, it’s one of the safest medications out there.

The science is clear: attacks on mifepristone are political, not medical.
msmagazine.com/2025/09/25/r...
Twenty-Five Years of Mifepristone: How Activists Brought the Abortion Pill to America and Changed Reproductive Health Forever
25 Years of RU-486: How Activists Brought the Abortion Pill Mifepristone to America and Changed Reproductive Health Forever
msmagazine.com
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The Trump administration released a long-delayed, drastically scaled-back version of the State Department’s annual human rights report. Shrinking it to just one-tenth the length of last year’s. Entire sections on abuses against women and LGBTQ people are gone, replaced by a narrower focus on
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Five years after the anti-racist manifesto We See You, White American Theatre challenged the theatre industry, Gabriela Furtado Coutinho and Kelundra Smith search for answers and accountability. From our Spring 2025 print issue:
www.americantheatre.org/2025/06/16/w...
We Came. We Saw. Now What?
Five years after an anti-racist manifesto challenged the theatre industry, we search for answers and accountability.
www.americantheatre.org
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Meet the billionaire MAGA donors, anti-women politicians and Trump loyalists who are trying to restrict voting rights for millions of women.
Who's Behind the SAVE Act?
Billionaire MAGA donors, anti-women politicians and Trump loyalists are the forces behind Republicans' dangerous assault on voting rights.
msmagazine.com
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

—Louis Brandeis
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"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News
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On March 31, the Trump administration sent letters to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other reproductive health clinics in 20 states announcing a freeze of close to $35 million in federal Title X funding as of April 1.
Trump Administration Slashes Reproductive Healthcare Funding for Millions
On March 31, the Trump administration sent letters to Planned Parenthood affiliates and other reproductive health clinics in 20 states announcing a freeze of close to $35 million in federal Title X fu...
msmagazine.com
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A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.

As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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U.S. corporate profits surged to a record high in Q4 2024, according to Commerce Department data.

Remember this as Trump tries to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%.

Corporations have used inflation as cover to price-gouge us. Trump wants them to keep more of the spoils.