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- www.axios.com/2026/02/05/t... Research looking at the state governments that have adopted similar at-will policies shows it raises the risk that workers are fired for political reasons unrelated to performance, & that it discourages whistleblowing. The policy also increases turnover & raises costs.
- www.propublica.org/article/mass... A WBUR-ProPublica investigation found that no DNA match, testimony or even confession could allow a rape to be prosecuted after the state’s 15-year deadline. The governor aims to “help survivors who have had to wait far too long for justice.”
- www.propublica.org/article/why-... Residents have every right and should be demanding that, ‘Hey, state authorities, police, local police: Protect us. Arrest people who kill us, who batter us, who point guns at us and threaten and assault us without legal cause to do so.’
- apnews.com/projects/pfa... The full story of Georgia’s power structures prioritizing an industry over public health is now emerging thru interviews & pages of court records from lawsuits. Those records detail how carpet companies were able to keep using forever chemicals.
- www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... The 1st house w/a roof appeared only 5,000 years ago. Television less than a century ago. Internet-connected phones ~ 30 years ago. Over the large majority of our 2-million-year evolutionary history, Darwinian forces molded our brains to find kinship with nature
- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Trump admin is finalizing overhaul of the federal govt civil service system through a rule issued this wk by the OPM to strip job protections from 50,000 civil service employees. Trump would have the authority to fire & hire ~50,000 career federal employees.
