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October 23, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Lost Kids and Eugene Scalia

Sidney’s Picks:

Eugene Scalia’s quiet war on OSHA. (New Yorker)
Hillman Prize-winners Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley report that the Trump administration has lost 545 migrant children it separated from their parents. (NBC)
Girl interrupted: ICE kept a 10-year-old Honduran girl in custody for 6 years. (Reveal)
Donald Trump and Scott Walker gave FoxConn hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to build a high-tech factory, but the project ended in disaster. (Verge)
Nigerians take to the streets to end a corrupt and brutal police forceknown as SARS. (NYT)

October 16, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Death Squads & Digital Piecework

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Lena, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

How these tenants evicted their landlord. (NYT)
Trump boasts that he sent a death squad to gun down a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The suspect was getting into his car when officers rolled up and shot him without warning, spraying nearby homes with bullets. (KATU, NYT)
California prisoners were put to work sewing masks, but not allowed to wear them, as an outbreak spread through their factory. (LA Times)
How Silicon Valley brought piecework back. (Dissent)
A high-stakes plan to save the Supreme Court (Slate)

October 9, 2020

Sidney's Picks: The Plot to Kidnap a Governor & Trump's Incitement of Terrorists

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Michigan Municipal League, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

A militia group schemed to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer over her COVID lockdown, pursuing weapons training, and conducting surveillance. (Freep)
Donald Trump attacks Whitmer and echos the terrorists’ grievances, as Whitmer reveals the threats against her are ongoing. (DN, Yahoo)
The Base: The birth of a Neo-Nazi terror group (VICE)
Unions complain to the United Nations about the United States’ plummeting labor standards. (WaPo)
Toxic hogweed chokes rural Russia. (NYT)
Infant daycare slots are disappearing, and parents can’t go to work. (WaPo)

October 2, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Standing Up for Black Women and Danger at Amazon

The Best of the Week’s News:

Who will stand up for Black women? (The Nation)
Worker injuries at Amazon have risen every year for the last four years, totaling over 14,000 serious injuries. (Reveal)
Police in the Bronx kettled and beat peaceful protesters in violation of international law, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. (HRW)
The GOP-connected firm that bungled New York’s absentee ballots will get a do-over. (The City)
How Trump summoned a red state army to DC and could do it again. (WaPo)
House Democrats pass a $2.2 trillion COVID relief package and put pressure on the GOP Senate majority to end the most unequal recession of our time. (Politico, WaPo)

September 25, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Unions, Hollywood, and the Supreme Court

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Jean-Guillaume Dumont, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

With unions surging in public esteem, support for labor is 2020’s sleeper issue. (TBT)
Trump is trying to bust the VAs largest union, and workers are living in fear. (ITT)
What if Trump refuses to concede? (Atlantic)
Breonna Taylor’s killers will never face justice because we’ve legalized murder by cop. (WaPo)
Hollywood is cleared to resume production in the COVID era, thanks to a new safety deal with the unions. (DLH)

September 18, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Ice Hysterectomies, USPS Voter Suppression, and Vaccine Fears

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Vaccine vials, Matt Allworth, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

At least 15 women were subjected to questionable reproductive surgeries in ICE detention, lawyers say. (USA Today)
A federal judge temporarily blocks DeJoy’s overhaul of the USPS, calling it “voter disenfranchisement.” (CNN)
OSHA is failing to protect workers from COVID hazards on the job. (HuffPo)
Bill Barr puts in a good word for political interference in prosecutions. (Slate)

September 11, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Wildfires, Lies, and Protests

The Best of the Week’s News:

Wildfires in California have already smashed all records, consuming 2.2 million acres…and the fire season has barely even started. (LiveScience, Buzzfeed)
While the U.S. grapples with widespread hunger, France will keep paying up to 84% of the salaries of workers furloughed by COVID-19 until next summer. (NYT, ABC)
Michelle Goldberg on what the Woodward tapes reveal about Trump’s lies. (NYT)
Why is the DOJ getting involved in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump? (MoJo)
At least 9 people have been killed in anti-police brutality protests in Colombia. (CBC)

September 4, 2020

Sidney's Picks: COVID Childcare Crisis

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Photo by Arlene Mejorando, courtesty of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project/Slate.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Will the pandemic spark a childcare revolution? (Slate)
As Labor Day approaches, New York City’s arts industry looks ahead to an uncertain future. (NYT)
What’s so great about California’s “Labor Slate”? (In These Times)
Why Trump’s eviction moratorium falls short. (Curbed)
Donald Trump dismissed American war dead as “suckers” and “losers.” (Atlantic, AP)

August 28, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Striking Hoppers, Missing Immigrants

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Trash bags awaiting pickup on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where sanitation workers known as hoppers are striking for a living wage. For illustration only. By Tony Webster, Creative Commons.

The garbage workers of New Orleans continue their strike because Black lives matter. (Discourse Blog)
The Trump administration had a naturalization ceremony at the RNC, but they disenfranchised up to 300,000 people by delaying their ceremonies until after the election. (WaPo)
Unionized professional athletes are striking to protest police brutality and teaching a lesson about the power of labor. (Nation)
Armed right-wing extremists stormed the Idaho state legislature, pushing past police and shattering a glass door to pack the gallery. (NPR)
Detroit’s embattled nursing home workers delay their strike, despite the urgent needs of their membership. (Dissent)

August 21, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Baby Chicks Smother as USPS Cuts Cause Backlog

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Fui, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Baby chicks smother and rot in their packages as Trump’s cuts plunge a major USPS sorting facility into chaos and squalor. (LA Times)
Some Friends: Posh Brooklyn Friends day school claims unions are against their “Quaker values.” (In These Times)
Meatpacking plants were warned for years to get ready for a pandemic, now they say they couldn’t have known. (ProPublica)
Kids are being stashed in hotels in a shadow immigration system. (WHYY)
Millions struggle to survive without their $600/wk pandemic UI supplement. (Guardian)

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Clear It With Sidney

Clear It with Sidney

Sidney's Picks: Lost Kids and Eugene Scalia

Sidney's Picks: Death Squads & Digital Piecework

Sidney's Picks: The Plot to Kidnap a Governor & Trump's Incitement of Terrorists

Sidney's Picks: Standing Up for Black Women and Danger at Amazon

Sidney's Picks: Unions, Hollywood, and the Supreme Court

Sidney's Picks: Ice Hysterectomies, USPS Voter Suppression, and Vaccine Fears

Sidney's Picks: Wildfires, Lies, and Protests

Sidney's Picks: COVID Childcare Crisis

Sidney's Picks: Striking Hoppers, Missing Immigrants

Sidney's Picks: Baby Chicks Smother as USPS Cuts Cause Backlog

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Clear It With Sidney

Sidney's Picks: Lost Kids and Eugene Scalia

Sidney's Picks: Death Squads & Digital Piecework

Sidney's Picks: The Plot to Kidnap a Governor & Trump's Incitement of Terrorists

Sidney's Picks: Standing Up for Black Women and Danger at Amazon

Sidney's Picks: Unions, Hollywood, and the Supreme Court

Sidney's Picks: Ice Hysterectomies, USPS Voter Suppression, and Vaccine Fears

Sidney's Picks: Wildfires, Lies, and Protests

Sidney's Picks: COVID Childcare Crisis

Sidney's Picks: Striking Hoppers, Missing Immigrants

Sidney's Picks: Baby Chicks Smother as USPS Cuts Cause Backlog

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