The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/
Why Mexico City’s water crisis is causing it to sink - The Washington Post
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Mexico City’s thirst is causing it to sink
The demand for water in Mexico’s capital is draining its underground aquifers
— and fueling some of the fastest subsidence rates in the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-env
Commanders agree to $1.3 million settlement following Virginia season ticket deposit investigation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5574449/2024/06/18/commanders-season-ticket-settlement-virginia/
"Following her lecture, Maria Todorova discusses with sociologist Manuela Boatca whether and to what extent (de)colonization theories can be made productive in Eastern European studies. The focus is the question of whether all empires can automatically be regarded as colonial." #Osteuropa #Imperium
Not wishing to sound like a scaremonger* but who else thinks that this bird flu will probably get completely out of control and develop into the next pandemic. Because government health departments seem to have learned nothing from the last one.
*random thought while filling the bird feeder in the backyard.
#Health #BirdFlu
Oh, my - Washington state has had a law preventing convicted felons from running for office since 1865...any registered voter can challenge the right of a candidate for any of five causes, including being convicted of a felony.
Commanders agree to $1.3 million settlement following Virginia season ticket deposit investigation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5574449/2024/06/18/commanders-season-ticket-settlement-virginia/
"Following her lecture, Maria Todorova discusses with sociologist Manuela Boatca whether and to what extent (de)colonization theories can be made productive in Eastern European studies. The focus is the question of whether all empires can automatically be regarded as colonial." #Osteuropa #Imperium
I’d wanted to interview Jennifer Harris for years.
She has been the quiet intellectual force behind the Biden administration’s economic policies,
and she seemed key to understanding why both parties in Washington had walked away from free trade and neoliberalism
— the belief that free markets will bring prosperity and democracy around the world.
These matters felt personal to me.
I spent much of the Trump administration following steelworkers in Indiana who los…