Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say The Verge
Organizers say the change made union efforts harder
Fight for 15: Workers across the US strike for dignified wages Peoples Dispatch
Texas
Texas wholesale electric prices spike more than 10,000% amid outages Reuters
The Absurd Electric Bills Slamming Texans Yahoo! News
Now, his bill has skyrocketed over $7,000 in the last two days, he said. As of Wednesday, Pierce owes Griddy $8,162.73 for the month of February—a shocking price considering the bill for his two-story house was $387.70 just last month. Last February, Pierce said he only paid $330.
Texas Power Crisis Is Getting Worse With Millions in Dark Bloomberg
U.S. Oil Production Slumps by Record 40% as Permian Freezes Bloomberg
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold Bloomberg
Fossil Fuel Apologists Crafted Lies Now Heard on Fox, Blaming Wind Power for Texas Blackouts Intercept
Millions of jobs probably aren’t coming back, even after the pandemic ends Washington Post
#COVID19
DeSantis under fire for giving vaccine access to wealthy Floridians Daily Mail
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII AP
Cuba
Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba. Tourists May Be Inoculated. NYTimes
Spain
Spain: Protests Reach 30 Cities After Rapper Jailed teleSUR
Protests demanding the release of Pablo Hasel gain momentum in Spain Peoples Dispatch
Biden Is Adopting a Militaristic Approach to the Far East The Nation
Troop levels are down, but US says over 18,000 contractors remain in Afghanistan Stars and Stripes
GPS Only Exists Because Of Two People: Albert Einstein And Gladys West Forbes
One of those technologies that’s been revolutionary for our society is GPS: the Global Positioning System. …
Unbeknownst to most people, however, the science underlying this technology was primarily developed by two people: Albert Einstein, whose theories of special and general relativity both play an important role, and Gladys West, a still-living and largely unheralded Black woman whose scientific contributions enabled us to understand geodesy and the shape of the Earth well enough to make GPS technology possible.
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