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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Trump Uses Forced Labor as Pretext to Tariff Allies

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Max Miller by Gage SkidmoreCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News 

  • Trump imposes new tariffs on the bizarre pretext that worker-friendly countries like Norway and New Zealand use forced labor to produce their exports. (Guardian)
     

  • The Department of Defense briefly subtracted the four U.S. troops killed by Iranian strikes in the Middle East last week from its casualty count on the grounds that they occurred after the war ended. (MS Now)
     

  • Peter Thiel’s scheme to put journalists on trial has flopped. (MSN)
     

  • MAGA congressman Max Miller is accused of misogyny and family violence and suspected by his ex-wife of breaking his two-year-old daughter’s collarbone. (MoJo)
     

  • Canadian Hillman Prize-winner Robert Cribb says big tech has the tools to stop the spread of child abuse images online, but chooses not to. (Walrus)