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September 29, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Hugh Hefner, Private Jets, and Far-Right Memes

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The Best of the Week’s News

Hugh Hefner: Nightmare Boss
HHS Secretary Tom Price promises to pay for his private flights, at pennies on the dollar.
Texas GOP meme-master teams up with the German far-right
Puerto Rico’s slow-motion medical crisis
If you’re sick of politics in sports, blame the Department of Defense.

September 22, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Graham-Cassidy Lies, The Alt Right, and Mexican Journalists

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Marc Nozell, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

The boys who cried #FakeNews on Graham-Cassidy
Undercover with the Alt-Right
Mourning a crusader for women’s health
“They used a power drill”: The state turns on Mexican journalists

September 15, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Fake News Capital, Houston EPA in Peril

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Veles, Macedonia, world capital of fake news. By Pero Kvrzica, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Behold, the Fake News Capital of the World
Houston is awash in spilled chemicals, but the local EPA lab is closing
The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
Unions step up to fight deportations

September 8, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

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Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Our First White President”
How Michigan gambled and lost on charter schools
How Facebook undermines its own fake-news-fighting program
How sketchy rehab centers troll for clients online
A tale of two janitors

September 1, 2017

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

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Steve Rhodes, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

What if Trump ends DACA?
Right wing alliance plots to “defund and defang” the labor movement
Trump offers snake oil solutions to the opioid problem
Utah nurse stands up to cop, refuses to take illegal blood sample, gets arrested

August 25, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Dylann Roof, Day Laborers, and David Duke's Godson

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luisromero, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Dylann Roof: A Most American Terrorist
Day laborers have a First Amendment right to ask for work, court rules
Sidney Award-winner Alec MacGillis on how Ben Carson is deconstructing HUD
David Duke was my godfather…

August 4, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Mueller's Grand Jury, the Clean Power Plan, and the Nissan Plant

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Thomas Hawke, Creative Commons. Chosen in honor of the Nissan plant organizers’ radical commitment to repairing both class- and race-based injustice at the Nissan plant in Canton.

The Best of the Week’s News

As Mueller’s grand juries make headlines, Senators move to protect him from Trump.
The fate of Obama’s climate-protecting Clean Power Plan hangs in the balance.
Organizers merge race and class justice in bid to unionize Nissan plant.
Hillman Judge Jelani Cobb on Trump’s racial resentment agenda.

July 28, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

GOP moderates and a united Democratic caucus save Obamacare
Someone is selling over 40 million voter records on the Dark Web.
When the government pays poverty wages
William Regnery II: Moneyman of the racist right

July 21, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

Can the president pardon himself?
Sidney-winner Sarah Maslin Nir reports on NY farm workers fighting for the right to organize.
States are criminalizing protest.
The Blue Collar Philanthropist

July 14, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

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The mouth of a lamprey aka a snot snake, by US Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

FCC commish urges ALEC to help squash net neutrality.
Snot snakes snarl Oregon highway.
GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers commits suicide.
Read Trump’s lawyer’s bizarre tirade to a stranger.

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Clear It with Sidney

Sidney's Picks: Hugh Hefner, Private Jets, and Far-Right Memes

Sidney's Picks: Graham-Cassidy Lies, The Alt Right, and Mexican Journalists

Sidney's Picks: Fake News Capital, Houston EPA in Peril

Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

Sidney's Picks: Dylann Roof, Day Laborers, and David Duke's Godson

Sidney's Picks: Mueller's Grand Jury, the Clean Power Plan, and the Nissan Plant

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

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Sidney's Picks: Hugh Hefner, Private Jets, and Far-Right Memes

Sidney's Picks: Graham-Cassidy Lies, The Alt Right, and Mexican Journalists

Sidney's Picks: Fake News Capital, Houston EPA in Peril

Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

Sidney's Picks: Dylann Roof, Day Laborers, and David Duke's Godson

Sidney's Picks: Mueller's Grand Jury, the Clean Power Plan, and the Nissan Plant

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

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