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💬 Quoted… ​​"Systemic failures and egregious poor decision making."

  • The Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting published an 80-page report yesterday blaming multiple failures by those in positions of power – including the 376 law enforcement officers who converged on the scene – for not halting the massacre sooner.

💀 Discovery of the Day: A team of paleoanthropologists unearthed a 1.4-million-year-old fossilized jawbone in Spain that’s believed to be from the oldest known human relative in Europe.

🌎 Around the World: President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the head of Ukraine’s domestic security agency and its prosecutor general yesterday, saying that more than 60 of their employees were collaborating with Russia.

🤯 Did You Know?... John Steinbeck spent two months rewriting his 1937 classic novella Of Mice and Men after his dog ate the only copy of his original manuscript.

📖 Worth a Read: Elon Musk’s Inner Circle Rocked by Fight Over His $230 Billion Fortune → (WSJ)

📊 Poll results: On Friday, we asked what you all thought of different company policies regarding discussions about contentious social or political issues in the workplace.

  • 51% of y’all think employees should be allowed to talk about those topics in the workplace, 32% think those discussions should be banned at work, and 17% were unsure or had a more nuanced opinion.

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