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Sidney's Picks: Lost Kids and Eugene Scalia

Sidney’s Picks:

Sidney's Picks: Death Squads & Digital Piecework

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Lena, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: The Plot to Kidnap a Governor & Trump's Incitement of Terrorists

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: Standing Up for Black Women and Danger at Amazon

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: Unions, Hollywood, and the Supreme Court

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: Ice Hysterectomies, USPS Voter Suppression, and Vaccine Fears

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Vaccine vials, Matt Allworth, Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: Wildfires, Lies, and Protests

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: COVID Childcare Crisis

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Photo by Arlene Mejorando, courtesty of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project/Slate. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

Sidney's Picks: Striking Hoppers, Missing Immigrants

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Trash bags awaiting pickup on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where sanitation workers known as hoppers are striking for a living wage. For illustration only.  By Tony Webster, Creative Commons

  • The garbage workers of New Orleans continue their strike because Black lives matter. (Discourse Blog) 
     
  • The Trump administration had a naturalization ceremony at the RNC, but they disenfranchised up to 300,000 people by delaying their ceremonies until after the election. (WaPo)
     
  • Unionized professional athletes are striking to protest police brutality and teaching a lesson about the power of labor. (Nation
     
  • Armed right-wing extremists stormed the Idaho state legislature, pushing past police and shattering a glass door to pack the gallery. (NPR)
     
  • Detroit’s embattled nursing home workers delay their strike, despite the urgent needs of their membership. (Dissent)

Sidney's Picks: Baby Chicks Smother as USPS Cuts Cause Backlog

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Fui, Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • Baby chicks smother and rot in their packages as Trump’s cuts plunge a major USPS sorting facility into chaos and squalor. (LA Times)
     
  • Some Friends: Posh Brooklyn Friends day school claims unions are against their “Quaker values.” (In These Times)
     
  • Meatpacking plants were warned for years to get ready for a pandemic, now they say they couldn’t have known. (ProPublica)
     
  • Kids are being stashed in hotels in a shadow immigration system. (WHYY)
     
  • Millions struggle to survive without their $600/wk pandemic UI supplement. (Guardian) 

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