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August 30, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Union Approval Soars, Solitary Kills

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SEIU Local 99, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Union approval nears 50-year high.
When solitary is a death sentence.
You’re reading that hurricane map wrong.
“The Reasonable Rebels”

August 23, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Vaccines, Coal, and the Service Industry

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Dr. Partha Sarathi Sahana, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

US won’t provide flu vaccines to migrants in detention, even though at least three kids have died of the flu in custody
Life in the Service Industry: Low wages, bad tips, unreliable hours
Unpaid Blackjewel miners continue their standoff.
Inside Trump’s bizarre campaign to free rapper A$AP Rocky from Sweden.

August 16, 2019

Sidney's Picks: 1619 and the Koch Safety Crisis

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Kevin Jarrett, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

The New York Times’ groundbreaking 1619 Project marks the 400th anniversary of slavery in America and traces its legacy to the present day
An ICE officer steered his truck into a crowd of protesters that included children and a wheelchair user–then calmly parked and went to work
The worker safety crisis at Koch-owned Georgia Pacific
How Gamergate touched off a new culture war

August 9, 2019

Sidney's Picks: ICE Raids, Insulin, and A Fat Rideshare Raise

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Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

As the nation grieved the deadliest anti-Latino hate crime in living memory, the Trump administration launched massive immigration raids, separating families and losing track of kids.
Alexa, stop using child labor!
Summer’s hottest domestic terror defense: Trump Made Me Do It
Lifelong Detroit resident dies of diabetes on the streets of Iraq, a country he’d never even visited, after ICE deported him there.
El Monte, California passes a $30 minumum wage for rideshare drivers, the nation’s highest!

August 2, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Kentucky Miners Occupy the Tracks; California Might Reform the Gig Economy

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“Canary in a Coal Mine,” by Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

Kentucky coal miners say they will keep blocking coal trains until they get paid by the Blackjewel mine. The mine sent out paychecks knowing they would bounce and failed to post a legally-required bond.
“Military romance scams” ensnare lonely Americans on facebook.
California bill could reform the gig economy to benefit workers.
How one “outdoor cat” destroyed an entire bird sanctuary.

July 26, 2019

Sidney's Picks: US Citizen Detained By ICE; The Road to "No"

The Best of the Week’s News:

U.S. citizen freed after 23 horrific days in ICE detention.
The McMindfulness scam
The Road to “No”: Asylum-seekers risk everything to make their case, but the courts are rarely swayed.
Contempt for Consent: A Toronto doctor’s downfall
Prospective Secretary of Labor’s writings raise eyebrows in the #MeToo era.

July 19, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Dept of Labor to Get Much Worse for Workers

The Best of the Week’s News:

The new acting secretary of labor, a former crony of Jack Abramoff, is expected to pursue an even more brutally anti-worker agenda.
Trump plans to appoint Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice, as permanent Secretary of Labor.
How the Fight for Fifteen went from a far-left project to mainstream Democratic policy.
Appleby leak shows Epstein’s cash is stashed offshore.
US is quietly opening detention “shelters” for infants and children without parents.

July 12, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Acosta Resigns, QAnon Widows Speak, and the Nation's Largest Union Endorses Abortion Rights

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Hey, hey, goodbye!

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns over lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, which was exposed by Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown.
A former federal prosecutor explains how Jeffrey Epstein’s luck finally ran out.
“I feel like a Ground Zero patient”: People who have lost loved ones to the cult of Qanon speak out
How Trump’s sheer incompetence doomed his bid to rig the Census.
The National Education Association, the country’s largest union, affirms the right to abortion at its annual convention.
It was never about bussing, it was about desegregation.

July 5, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Epstein Document Dump and Deadly Deliveries

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The Best of the Week’s News:

In a coup for Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown and for press freedom, a court agrees to release a 2000-page file on coddled sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Politics is changing, why are pundits still in the Dark Ages?
The Trump administration’s lies are wearing thin with the Supreme Court.
Uber Eats expansion to Mexico plagued by injuries, deaths, and lack of compensation.

June 28, 2019

Sidney's Picks: Corroborating E Jean; Allowing Gerrymandering

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Chuck Allen, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Meet the women who corroborate E. Jean Carroll’s allegations of rape against the president.
The Supreme Court’s gerrymandering verdict is a disaster for democracy.
The end of the Lordstown GM plant means the end of a struggle for workplace democracy.
Oregon Republican senators remain in hiding after walking out to thwart a cap-and-trade bill.

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Sidney's Picks: Union Approval Soars, Solitary Kills

Sidney's Picks: Vaccines, Coal, and the Service Industry

Sidney's Picks: 1619 and the Koch Safety Crisis

Sidney's Picks: ICE Raids, Insulin, and A Fat Rideshare Raise

Sidney's Picks: Kentucky Miners Occupy the Tracks; California Might Reform the Gig Economy

Sidney's Picks: US Citizen Detained By ICE; The Road to "No"

Sidney's Picks: Dept of Labor to Get Much Worse for Workers

Sidney's Picks: Acosta Resigns, QAnon Widows Speak, and the Nation's Largest Union Endorses Abortion Rights

Sidney's Picks: Epstein Document Dump and Deadly Deliveries

Sidney's Picks: Corroborating E Jean; Allowing Gerrymandering

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