Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

July 2019

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

Photo credit:

Hey, hey, goodbye!

Illustration by Donkey Hote, Creative Commons.

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

Photo credit:

WRI Ross Center, Creative Commons.

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.