Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

April 2026

April 10, 2026

Sidney's Picks: First Rest Stop for Deliveristas Opens in NYC

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Canadian Hillman Prizewinners

The Best of the Week’s News

The first rest stop, shelter, and safe charging station for deliveristas opened in Manhattan after Mayor Mamdani spearheaded its completion. (The City, ABC7NY)
Fact-checker says he was fired from the New Yorker for his union activism. (Nation)
Google AI overviews are wrong about 10% of the time. (NYT)
Man accused of hacking climate activists on behalf of lobbyists and fossil fuel giants is extradited to New York. (NYT)
A nursing home scammer got a Trump pardon and his victims got nothing. (ProPublica)

April 3, 2026

Sidney's Picks: Trump Kills the Forest Service

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Patrik Nygren, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

The U.S. Forest Service is no more. (Hatch)
An anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center” told a Texas woman she was finewhen she had an ectopic pregnancy that could kill her. (Dallas Morning News)
Eight-hundred New Yorkers swept up in “collateral” ICE arrests. (The City)
From foreign correspondent to Uber driver. (Nation/EHRP)
Trump scales back rules protecting workers at nuclear power plants. (HCN)
Synthetic drugs fuel a deadly overdose crisis in America’s prisons. (Marshall Project)