The true cost of Ecuador’s perfect roses: how the global flower trade poisons workers https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/20/true-cost-ecuador-roses-global-flower-trade-poison-water-workers-land
Sanders Slams Private Equity Scrooges Ending Paid Holidays for Walgreens Workers | Common Dreams
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100 clergy members arrested at Minneapolis airport amid protests over ICE immigration surge – live
Labor unions and progressive organizations have called on workers across the state to stay home in an ‘economic blackout
We’re getting an update that 100 clergy members were arrested while protesting federal immigration enforcement outside Minneapolis-St Paul international airport today.
They were arrested by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement, according t…
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Work resumes on the Hudson River rail tunnel project, but NJ Transit delays continue
A thousand workers are expected to be back on the job after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of dollars to fund construction.
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»Mullvad bringt WireGuard in Rust:
Mullvad hat eine neue WireGuard-Implementierung namens GotaTun vorgestellt, die in Rust statt in Go geschrieben wurde.«
Cool das von Mullvad die Rust Implementierung der WireGuard VPN durchgeführt hat. Ich werde dies mir bei Gelegenheit mal genauer ansehen und auch weil `Rust Go = NoGo` ist.
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"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"
I am The Post's 'federal government whisperer.' It's been brutal. (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
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Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job.
She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023,
managing a national youth substance abuse prevention program.
The project focused on rural communities, and Tighe, whose family is from Appalachia, was proud to be using her public health training to support often-overlooked parts of the country.
“The CDC was different than anywhere else I’ve worked,” says Tighe.
“People didn’t …
Twin Cities postal workers with the "National Association of Letter Carriers" (NALC) Branch 9
gathered at the post office on
Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota
Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve.
“People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package.
No one deserves to be t…