October 10, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Department of Ed is Killing Public Education
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“The Final Mission”: The Secretary of Education is destroying public education (ProPublica)
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Children are starving to death in Myanmar because of Trump’s destruction of USAID. (AP)
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How forward-thinking philanthropists and union leaders helped build the New Deal and save our democracy. (NYT)
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Why does everything taste the same? Mega-distributor Sysco is taking over the restaurant industry. (More Perfect Union)
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Trump is deporting people to an absolute monarchy in Africa. (MoJo)
October 3, 2025
Sidney's Picks: White House Threatens Universities
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White House threatens to bankrupt nine universities unless they change programs that “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.” (CBS)
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New research reveals exactly how heat kills workers. (WaPo)
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On a junket to New Zealand, FBI director Kash Patel modeled law and order by presenting his hosts with illegal replica guns. (AP)
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MAGAs are dragging Starbucks baristas into the culture war. (NYT)
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Student journalists sue to stop Trump’s deportations of students for their political speech. (Press Freedom Fnd)
September 26, 2025
Sidney's Picks: An Oral History of DOGE
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September 19, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Project 2026
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September 12, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Feds Finally Give Masks to Firefighters
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After prohibiting them for years, the feds will now provide masks to firefighters battling wildfires. (NYT)
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A year into the tenure of new CEO, the battle for the first union contract at Starbucks continues. (Guardian)
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Trump is colluding with Putin to send dissidents back to Russia. (Times of London)
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The people who brought you Project 2025 have thoughts about the US Constitution. (NYT)
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Scenes from Sudan’s forgotten humanitarian crisis. (Time)
September 5, 2025
Sidney Picks: Fourth Person Dies in NYC Custody in One Week
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A Turkish immigrant became the fourth person to die in New York City custody in a week. (NYT)
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Trump’s tariffs are hurting the workers who voted for him. (WaPo)
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Uber and Lyft drivers can now join a union in California. (Prospect)
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Howard Lutnick’s family stands to profit off refunds if Trump’s tariffs are declared illegal. (TPM)
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Trump ends defense aid to European countries that border Russia. (NYT)
August 29, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Wednesday Night Massacre at the CDC
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“People will die because of this”: Kennedy oversees Wednesday Night Massacre at the CDC and access to COVID vaccines is up in the air. (MSNBC, NYT)
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How Trump’s handpicked housing regulator is generating an Enemies Listbased on mortgage documents. (Credit Slips)
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A federal appeals court deems the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. (Prospect)
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Tesla claimed it didn’t have data from a fatal crash, but a hacker exposed their lies. (WaPo)
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Denmark says it caught three people linked to Donald Trump running covert ops to soften up Greenland for a US invasion, the White House says Denmark needs to “calm down” about it. (BBC)
August 22, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Feds Raid John Bolton's Home After He Criticized Trump
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Federal agents descended on the home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton after he savaged Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin and Kash Patel touts a plan to de-professionalize the FBI. (NYT)
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Judge rules that Florida must stop sending detainees to “Alligator Alcatraz” and begin dismantling the brutal detention facility. (Politico)
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Eric Adams advisor Winnie Greco slipped a City reporter a bribe in a bag of potato chips. (The City)
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RFKjr has eliminated federal funding for lifesaving mRNA vaccines, tapped a notorious quack to frame vaccines for causing autism, and eliminated research into the environmental causes of autism. (Prospect, NYT, Politico)
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Foundations commit $36.5 million to protect public media companies. (E&P)
August 15, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Pritzker Signs Law Protecting IL Unions
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As Trump assaults federal collective bargaining, Illinois governor JB Pritzker signs a bill to protect labor. (WTVO)
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Trump’s tariffs ravage small businesses. (NYT)
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Texas private schools are a morass of corruption and self-dealing, soon they’ll get taxpayer dollars. (Texas Tribune/ProPublica)
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Subway cleaners underpaid during the pandemic will share a $3 million settlement. (NYT)
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A massive high-quality study showed that aluminum in vaccines is safe for kids. RFKjr crashed out and demanded a retraction. The journal shrugged. (Reuters)
August 8, 2025
Sidney's Picks: Kennedy Kills mRNA Vaccine Program
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Antivax HHS Secretary kills nearly half-billion dollars worth of contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, technology that has saved millions of lives. (NYT)
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McCarthy Redux: Pro-Trump group wages war on “subversive” federal workers. (Reuters)
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How three simple labor laws helped organizers make inroads at Amazon and Uber in Canada. (On Labor)
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The Veterans Administration terminates most of its union contracts as part of Trump’s push to outlaw most federal collective bargaining. (GovExec)
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Rep. Corey Mills is a bigger scumbag than George Santos, and that’s saying something. (NYT)
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The official death toll of the LA fires was 30, but the true toll may exceed 400. (WaPo)
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