Underworld Turns

Shield Uber & Lyft hacks from bannings

Uber and Lyft drivers are rallying outside City Hall today to call for the passage of City Council bill Intro 276, which would protect us from unfair firings, or as Uber and Lyft call them, deactivations. Although we make up New York City’s largest private sector workforce serving 1 million passengers a day, Uber and Lyft drivers live in fear of being fired suddenly without cause.
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How to be old

I was at a wonderful wedding on Saturday, and there were some great pictures – or so I thought – carefully taken by the husband. I then caught sight of a newspaper photograph (which I don’t intend to share, but it was in the Mail!) in which I looked for all the world like an […]

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1 hurt as construction crane overturns in Malibu

An overturned construction crane in Malibu hurt one person on Wednesday. The crane overturned in the 31300 block of Broad Beach Road, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said just before noon on social media. As a result, officials encouraged the public to avoid the area until further notice. One person was entrapped in the […]
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Dr. Trump’s bad medicine: The president’s outlandish attack on Tylenol for causing autism

Donald Trump is practicing medicine without a license in declaring that pregnant women should not take acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) because it will cause autism in their children. He went even further than his crank Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the HHS doctors who stood with them in the Roosevelt Room on Monday.
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