June 20, 2025
Sidney's Picks: How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Appalachia

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Miner’s Monument, Bernard Spragg, Creative Commons.
The Best of the Week’s News
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ICE deported Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo to a notorious Salvadoran prison for standing next to a guy with tattoos. (Texas Trib)
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How black lung came roaring back in Appalachia. (NYT)
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The Senate’s budget reconciliation bill would sell off 40% of all public landand trigger a hospital apocalypse. (Wes Siler NL, Prospect)
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A Christian nationalist Appeal To Heaven flew briefly above a US government agency. (Wired)
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders get a 400% raise. (NYT)