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Good morning and happy Ash Wednesday (and Valentine’s Day) to those who celebrate. Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter:

• This Valentine’s Day strike may disrupt your plans

• Doctors weigh in on Biden’s forgetfulness—and what it means

• Get your headlines here 📰

• Some good news: After 238,000 games, baseball has a new first

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Workers send cold message this Valentine’s Day: pay us more, or else

Today, thousands of Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash drivers will be the latest group of American workers to walk off the job, demanding better pay and working conditions in the face of corporate greed. The Justice For App Workers coalition says drivers in its union will not provide rides to and from airports between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. across 10 U.S. cities. The union represents about 130,000 drivers and delivery workers in an industry that employs millions.

The inequality is stunning: According to ZipRecruiter, the average yearly salary for an Uber driver in New York is $31k a year, or just $2,576 a month—before taxes. That’s far below a living wage: the average rent in New York City for a one bedroom apartment is $3,687/month, according to Apartments.com. On top of that, gig workers usually don’t have any benefits, vacation time, or retirement plans—not to mention access to bathrooms.

Meanwhile, the CEOs of these companies are making bank—off the backs of their underpaid workers:

• Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi took home a cool $24.3 million last year

• Lyft’s CEO Logan Green, who also co-founded the company, made $13 million in 2022

• Doordash’s CEO Tony Xu took home a truly staggering $413 million in 2020

But but but: Workers are fighting back. The striking drivers today are the latest in a growing trend of employees raging against the greed of our corporate enslavers. Just this week:

• Thousands of flight attendants picketed outside major airports yesterday demanding better pay—including a “hero” flight attendant on the Alaska Airlines flight where the f*cking door came off…

• While Disneyland characters and parades cast members in California have launched their own unionization effort.

Biden’s forgetfulness may not be evidence of decline, docs say

After a Trump-supporting special prosecutor slammed Biden’s mental acuity last week, doctors are now saying—wait just a second—it’s impossible to use isolated examples to diagnose a memory problem. That’s because memories can be impacted by more than aging, and memories don’t solely determine a person’s cognitive fitness, a new report from ABC News says.