A mother in Arizona was put on a 25-year blacklist which would cost her her job because she let her child play outside a store for half an hour with a friend. She figured that was safer than bringing them inside the store, where they might catch Covid-19 from customers or staff. (This was in November 2020.)

*New Bill Would Protect Workers Who Walk Off the Job Because of … Disasters.*

It starts with the right to stop working or flee the workplace for safety from a disaster, without being fired or punished for doing so.

The bill refers earthquakes and tornadoes as "climate disasters", which is certainly erroneous for earthquakes and perhaps also for tornadoes. It is right to include those disasters in legal protection for workers' safety, but the law should use some other name for them all, one that isn't flat-out incorrect.

Everyone: call on General Mills to reduce the plastic in its packaging.

US citizens: call on corporations to keep their pledge, and stop donations to insurrectionist members of Congress.

Everyone: call on the New York Times to correct an article that called Stacey Abrams' campaign a example of a bad campaign, citing a source who had in fact called it an example of a good campaign.