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Texting for
@berniesanders
from McMurdo Station, Antarctica because he's the only one with a climate plan to scale with the problems we're observing here.
#Scientists4Bernie
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Every agency and power involved says this exact same thing. The hands of every entity powerful enough to
#StopLine3
are mysteriously tied as the ship sinks. Meanwhile the people bailing out the water are thrown in jail and charged with terrorism.
Q: If the DNR is committed to tackling climate change, why haven't the permits for Line 3 been revoked?
A: DNR's role as a regulator was to look at aspects of the projects that fall within our purview & we have to do that according to state statutes and rules.
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infuriating footage.
Btw, in arguing for his amendment that stalled coronavirus legislation, Paul suggested that to be a "legitimate person" you need a SS#. He described undocumented immigrants who don't have them as "non-people."
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"It's not a shutdown, it's a right-wing coup." Pertinent article by
@adamjohnsonNYC
of the great
@CitationsPod
:
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My brother is a nurse in NYC. His supervisor just died of
#covid19
. Older nurses with chronic conditions are feeling symptoms. They're forced to reuse PPE left and right and are already reaching bed saturation. Nurses are crying on the unit. Absolutely awful situation developing.
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neighbors don't carry rifles up and down streets in order intimidate and violently crush dissent. this is an occupying force. get them the fuck out of here.
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.
@GovTimWalz
take notes
HUGE NEWS: Michigan
@GovWhitmer
has just moved to terminate and revoke easement for
@Enbridge
to operate its Line 5 pipeline on the bed of the Great Lakes in North Michigan!!!!!
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Really grateful to work with such an amazing crew
@propublica
to put the interactive maps in this harrowing story together. Especially thankful for
@lenagroeger
's insightful eye and guidance. Amazing reporting
@MaxBlau
!
Full article/maps here:
No Southern city has experienced a longer and more damaging legacy of environmental injustice than Birmingham.
To understand how the city's north side became an American epicenter of environmental injustice, you need to know about a plant on 35th Avenue. 🧵
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Want to get involved in the fight to
#StopLine3
? I've been collaborating on a map to get you up-to-date with the struggle:
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Yesterday was a bad day for the
#GreenwoodFire
. It's now less than 15 miles from my mom's home.
Minnesotans have an opportunity to prevent further climate chaos tomorrow. Show up at the capital at 2pm to demand
@GovTimWalz
+
@POTUS
#StopLine3
More info:
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Bernie is the only candidate with a *movement built* climate plan that is to scale with the level of transformation needed to avoid catastrophic warming.
#Scientists4Bernie
@SunriseSci
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Now do Line 3!
#StopLine3
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his 1st day in office, sources tell CBC News.
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"imagine if the military had to hold bake sales to keep the doors open instead of our schools" - Jennifer Marley
#Socialism2019
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The regulatory process has failed to protect people, water, and climate. Some
@sftporg
scientist friends and I went north last weekend to support Water Protector's brave efforts to
#StopLine3
. Thanks for the coverage
@emorwee
!
People all over Northern Minnesota are locking their bodies to pipeline equipment and no one is covering it so here you go
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I cannot express how much despair I feel at the prospect of Biden winning. We're aiming at a recession and collapse of the oil industry - an unprecedented opportunity to transition away from fossil fuels at the last minute - and we're poised to miss it with either Biden or Trump
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We can never go back to normal. We must replace the systems that allowed this crisis.
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"a blow to opponents"
this constant framing of planetary destruction as a fucking football game is Exhibit A in the media's complicity in climate breakdown. Unforgivable stuff.
It's a blow to the future habitability of planet Earth, to the water, to Treaty rights.
#StopLine3
The Minnesota Supreme Court will not review a lower court decision to affirm state utility regulators' approval of Enbridge's controversial new oil pipeline across northern Minnesota — a blow to opponents of Line 3.
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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 2 - Lines
Biking in Minnesota is kind of a water sport... I mapped my
@Strava
paths - I'm pretty much always headed to, alongside, and sometimes even floating on some kind of water feature on my rides :)
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This is my favorite episode of a podcast in a long time. Libraries! Libraries for everything!
For your use and enjoyment!
This special episode of Srsly Wrong uses the lenses of history, complexity, retention, and culmination to talk about libraries, sharing, and the socialist future we want to build
listen:
donate:
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Water protectors are doing more to communicate the seriousness of climate change than a million scientific conferences, papers, and fancy interactive data visualizations. Living like there's an emergency - because there fucking is - speaks volumes.
#scicomm
BREAKING: Water Protector Arrested After Blockading Enbridge Line 3 Pipe-yard until 2pm.
This action is just 9 days after an Enbridge worker was killed at a Line 3 workyard, Enbridge has yet to comment on its unsafe practices. We���re standing up for your water, your health also.
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@EdMarkey
Bail out the workers.
nationalize the fossil fuel industry, wind it down and give the workers 5 years wage parity
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@theAGU
is considering going virtual for their fall meeting due to
#COVID
ー19.
This comes after years of climate scientists (like
@ClimateHuman
!) pushing for virtual meetings to combat the enormous emissions footprint inherent in these massive in-person meetings.
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Primary this clown
Let’s be clear: The brave men and women of the Minnesota National Guard are our neighbors.
They’re teachers, health care workers, and business owners who live in communities across our state.
This is unacceptable. They can’t “go home” — this is their home.
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@IsabelleLetell1
.
@ClimateHuman
has been organizing
#climatebeers
for this purpose. I just attended one in San Francisco and it was a truly great experience. I think
@KA_Nicholas
,
@coralsncaves
,
@jabeckx
and others can testify that it was healing and sad and good and needs to happen more.
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this is a big deal - anyone with federal research funding will likely be able to access
@umbraspace
data for their research!
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new climate denial just dropped
#StopLine3
This Climate Week, we are reminded that the cost of climate change is clearer than ever.
Together, let’s recommit to combating climate change to protect the health and beauty of our state for generations to come.
#OurMNClimate
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Love how the negative space of these sites depict the maximum extent of the Laurentide Ice Sheet so clearly. How many amazing sites were erased by glaciation?
From the book, here's a map of "pre-clovis" archeological sites in North America, ranging from 14,000 years ago to 130,000+ years ago
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@GovTimWalz
@LtGovFlanagan
@lbishopw
. There is no excuse for allowing the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure in 2020. It's science denial.
#StopLine3
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if your work as an agency includes approving a Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion in the year 2021 then no, you absolutely cannot claim to to be committed to addressing climate change.
Absolute cowards.
A/2: We can still be committed, within the sphere of our work, to climate change.
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We just updated the map sequence in this piece with some interactive drone footage!
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Cheating a bit right out of the gate for the
#30DayMapChallenge
with a map I made for
@polargeospatial
showing the US Antarctic Program facilities and field stations that will be in the path of the
#solarEclipse
happening next month.
#points
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Just so delusional. You literally headed up the agency approving massive tar sands expansion like last week. Stop this completely disingenuous bullshit and please go away.
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An honor to work on the animated map for this important story in
@propublica
with
@loganjaffe
and
@lenagroeger
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The systems the powerful claim are meant to protect people and planet and life are consistently broken. Do not trust them or rely on them. Please support direct actions on the front lines however you can.
#BreakingNews
the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Enbridge in the appeal to the Public Utilities Commission's approval of Enbridge's certificate of need, route permit, and environmental impact statement.
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I helped put some of these maps together - more to come
@Enbridge
used Horizontal Directional Drilling to construct Line 3 across 21 rivers. This involved drilling tunnels 60 ft underneath the rivers, and installing pipe into it. To drill these tunnels, contractors lubricated a very large drill bit with drilling fluid.
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reminder: it's true - we're entering a new and devistating geologic epoch, but we should call it the Capitalocene, not the Anthropocene. The horizon (climate impacts, mass extinction, global extractive industry) is clearly correlated with the rise of capitalism, not humanity.
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The misinformation is coming from inside the house.
Pic of drilling fluid in the waterway directly adjacent to (read - connected to) the Mississippi with Enbridge workers frantically trying to contain it with state of the art brooms(??).
A lot of misinformation is being shared on social about potential frac-outs, especially re: Shell River & Mississippi Headwaters. 9 construction sites have had inadvertent releases of drilling fluid, but Willow River is the only crossing where drilling fluid entered the waterway.
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"...unions are the only way tech workers all over can stand together against the unethical use of their labor and reckon with the impact we're having on the world." - Bhavika Tekwani of
@MapboxUnion
✊✊✊
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Unimaginably dumb people run everything
@wapodavenport
My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness
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This kind of word salad is how the world dies, one agency checkbox at a time. An unbearably boring way to unleash the apocalypse. Corporations just steamrole through this kind of tepid bs and they'll do it til it all burns if we let em.
There was one release into a river. There were 13 inadvertent releases into a wetland, which is not allowed under our 401 certification. There were 14 additional inadvertent releases in non-surface water areas, although one of these releases flowed into a wetland.
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@JakeWoodier
Tipping Points by
@PeteK_AQ
is pretty slept on
Listen now to the first series of
#TippingPoints_IC
a
#podcast
that explores the personal stories of scientists concerned about the environmental & ecological crises
🎙️📣
Presented by
@imperialcollege
postgraduate research student
@PeteK_AQ
#ClimateAction
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Tom here is not wrong... here's how it could happen to you too:
realize climate and ecological collapse are unfathomably bad => research causes => research solutions => you're an anti-capitalist.
@shane98c
Minneapolis Earth Scientist Shane is doing a very poor job of hiding his anti-capitalist agenda.
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so many beautiful layers and regions to explore with this tool:
follow
@weatherdak
for awesome highlights!
#GOES16
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.
@StrommenSarah
's
@mndnr
was openly bought by
@Enbridge
, simultaneously approving permits for the Line 3 pipeline while profiting from ruthlessly crushing resistance to the project using their enforcement wing of "conservation officers". Absolutely shameful.
Receipts 🧵 below.
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Check out this sweeping tour of the contradictions inherent in solving the
#ClimateCatastrophe
within capitalism by
@ashesashescast
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ChatGPT Plus just got an insane upgrade, The Code Interpreter 🤯
Now every user can employ their own personal Data Analyst Intern for just $20/month
Here are 8 mind blowing examples users achieved in the past 24 hours alone (🧵👇)
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If we don't actively fight against it, our work in the Earth Sciences will default to its status quo - directly aiding the colonization, expropriation, and genocide of indigenous people. Great article co-authored by the very cool and good
@mad_blade
.
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This paper by
@m_xenen
is about honey bee research at first glance, but it's also a deep critique of how so much science is done.
"if turning towards The Dangerous Questions is uncomfortable, turning away from them represents its own existential threat"
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@JacquelynGill
@MaryHeglar
fwiw it sounds like they did clean it up.
@MaryHeglar
@saoi4climate
We brought shovels and wheelbarrows and a truck to clean it up ourselves, unlike biden our plan wasn't to make other people clean up our shit
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Carbon capture at scale is simply not going to happen. We need to cut emissions right now and stop this blatant tactic of denial.
Guess which will be easier: A) Trying not to light concentrated carbon on fire, or B) Trying to sweep it all up later at a parts-per-million concentration from *the air* on almost the same scale at which we now emit it
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Scientists + direct action = the best
#scicomm
strategy for a burning world imo
BREAKING: this morning, two water protectors with Camp Migizi locked down to stop Line 3 construction.
“As an environmental scientist, I am painfully aware that it’s time to transition away from fossil fuels. I am standing for treaty rights and the right to a livable future."
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"Long after our names and faces and deeds have faded from living memory, long after any genetic or creative or physical or digital traces of us are gone, this carbon legacy will define us in the minds and stories of our distant descendants."
@KA_Nicholas
in Under the Sky We Make
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@AndyDoggerBank
Drumlins are best sampled from the sky imo :) this view flying into Punta Arenas in Patagonia was one of the inspirations for
@flyovergeo
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The science only continues to back up what the indigenous people of these lands have been saying since the beginning.
For the air we breath. For the water we drink. For the whole damn planet. For all future generations. We must
#StopLine3
Watch:
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This is nice and all, but study time is over. We know what we have to do. Revoke active leases, wind down the industry, and support impacted workers (literally just pay them to not destroy the future instead of paying them to destroy it, the math works out I promise)
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Our city is under siege by outsiders alright
Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up”
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#JusticeForGeorge
#BlackLivesMatter
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"We need a new word for that feeling for nature that is love and wonder mingled with dread and sorrow, for when we see those things that are still beautiful, still powerful, but struggling under the burden of our mistakes."
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Imagine explaining the filibuster to someone from 500 years in the future wondering wtf happened during this critical decade
The filibuster is mind bogglingly stupid, if you look into it. And of course completely against democracy.
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We need a
#UKElection
-sadness-beers meetup at
#AGU19
.. This one's a major loss for any kind of climate action and it's really really depressing.
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not letting hot pasta water go down the drain during winter is climate action imo
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We're doomed
BREAKING: Amazon has purchased the naming rights to the New Arena at Seattle Center where
@NHLSeattle_
will play.
The name: Climate Pledge Arena
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“We can stop this pipeline, we will stop this pipeline and this is how we’re going to do it.”
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Minnesotans of the
@TwinCitiesDSA
and other great groups seeking climate justice to
#StopLine3
@IlhanMN
@GovMarkDayton
#ClimateAction
now
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It's a tragedy that so much of the climate movement is forced to spend their limited resources & energy on 'Step 0' work - blocking pipelines (
#stopline3
) or stopping fossil fuel influence from being appointed to the supposedly science focused Biden admin (
@ErnestMoniz
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@ClimateHuman
@SunriseSci
@sunrisemvmt
@GunnelsWarren
@BNeidhardt
@WaywardWinifred
Is there an article yet highlighting climate scientists rallying around Bernie? We should work to make one if not. It's come up several times while texting for the campaign that I'm in climate sci, but pointing to something highlighting a group of us would be v helpful.
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We live at the most important time in human history. Stopping fossil fuel capitalism, or not, determines the fate of literally all life on earth for as many generations as you can count.
Support those fighting to save our future. Donate:
#StopLine3
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It's bullshit that so many of the jobs people are forced to work are bullshit. We can work to change this system.
@ashesashescast
's latest ep is a good primer:
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I'm glad to see they're acknowledging the possibility in light of the science of Covid, but it would be nice to see them (and many other organizations!) take the science of climate change as urgently - its consequences are even more dire.
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I've been thinking about how to make scrolly map stories more accessible to people using screen readers - so far I've tried describing map updates using aria-live, but it's feeling pretty hacky. Anyone have any pointers?
#gischat
#nacis2021
#accessibility
#dataviz
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The brain of a baby inside of a grown man's body holds all future generations hostage. I think maybe our government is broken.
My statement raising concerns about the consequences of passing a $3.5 trillion budget:
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Right now Enbridge workers and cops are blocking the media's view of a Water Protector stopping construction of Line 3 as they try to remove them.
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Janitors should be the highest-paid workers in every building.
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Had a $5 bet with my mom that Bernie had the most diverse base:
#Bernie2020
Bernie Sanders is the candidate leading with nonwhite Democratic voters, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.
Sanders: 29%
Biden: 26%
Warren: 13%
Buttigieg: 6%
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Please suggest things to add or change! This is a work in progress until we crush this pipeline.
Thanks to my
@sftporg
friends and many others for thoughts and suggestions that have already made it in, and
@Mapbox
/
@johnbranigan
for making this technically easy. more to come.
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Great talk about the troubling relationships between geology and colonialism by Selby Cull-Hearth
@ColonialGeology
. "Who publishes on colonized land?"
#NCGSA2020
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I used
@Diplateevo
's sweet <scrolly-video> web component for this with a couple small tweaks. Shoutout to
@LoBenichou
,
@AmCaW
,
@brentajones
,
@joemfox
, and
@dnlnss
for the tips, links, and inspiration to try this!
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"...but the path forward is clear: Fuck the algorithms, dismantle the tech monopolies, and build infrastructures of care and justice where these systems of social control once stood."
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.
@azavea
's loam (gdal in the browser!!) opens up so many cool offline map app possibilities.
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complete psychopaths.
Trump is signaling interest in scaling back "social distancing" and other steps promoted by health officials as a growing number of conservatives argue that impact on the U.S. economy has become too severe
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No matter who wins - we need to organize and mobilize to make this happen.
We will strike in the streets to make sure our leaders don't miss this chance at a Green New Deal, no matter who they are.
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Hopefully. Currently EO data is largely tied up in bonkers license structures behind opaque pay walls. Many of these companies are propped up largely through government contracts anyway... Nationalize them all and open up the data imo.
Interesting - Australia has announced four Earth observation satellites as part of its first national space mission at $1.1B (not much known about the sensor or configuration).
Will we continue to see EO becoming nationalized around the world?
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Hellworld
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said in her state, it will be considered a “voluntary quit” if an employee refuses to return to work once businesses reopen, thereby losing access to unemployment benefits.
A similar situation will soon play out in Texas.
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