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February 21, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Sepsis Rates Surge After Texas Abortion Ban

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Waikumete Cemetery, Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News:
 

  • Sepsis rates have surged by more than 50% since Texas banned abortion. (ProPublica) 

     

  • Venezuelan mother and her two children deported to Mexico hours after a traffic stop. (AZ Luminaria) 
     

  • ICE prosecutor in Dallas runs a Neo-Nazi X account. (Texas Observer)
     

  • DOGE’s claimed savings aren’t adding up. (NPR)
     

  • Mississippi judge forces local newspaper to delete editorial criticizing city council, alarming press freedom advocates. (NYT)

February 14, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Trump Deports Immigrants to Guantanamo

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Joe Brusky Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Families of immigrants detained at Guantanamo dispute government’s claim that their loved ones are violent gang members. (ProPublica)
     

  • Immigration authorities raided the town of Cactus nearly twenty years ago, but the consequences still reverberate and other towns fear history will repeat itself. (TX Monthly, WaPo)
     

  • Meat industry asks Trump administration to deregulate factory farms and meat-packing plants. (Sentient)
     

  • Check out Wage Theft Monitor, a new publicly accessible database of wage theft in New York and beyond. (Documented) 
     

  • Woman jailed for drug use during pregnancy released following investigation by Mississippi Today. (MT)

February 7, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Unelected Elon Musk Lays Waste to Federal Government

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USAID, Rwanda Reconciliation and Reintegration Project, Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News

January 31, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Air Traffic Control Understaffed During Potomac Crash

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

January 24, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Trump's War on Birthright Citizenship

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Chris Cowan, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

January 17, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Meatpacking Giants to Pay $8 Million Child Labor Settlement

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Meatpacking giants agree to pay $8 million for hiring migrant children to work in slaughterhouses. (NYT)
     

  • Donald Trump’s allies waged a campaign of witness intimidation to confirm Pete Hegseth. (New Yorker)
     

  • Texas pays anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers” $14 to hand out a box of donated diapers. (ProPublica)
     

  • Manhattan construction company accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars in wages from immigrant workers. (Gothamist)
     

  • Tech billionaires’ “war on woke” is a war on workers. (Salon)

January 10, 2025

Sidney's Picks: He Infiltrated the Oath Keepers

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Michael Tefft, Militia members, Illustration only, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News
 

December 20, 2024

Sidney's Picks: NYC's Fastest-Growing Union is Management-Friendly

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EllenM1, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • NYC’s fastest-growing union is management-friendly and some members don’t even know they belong. (The City)
     

  • Amazon and Starbucks workers walk off the job in several major cities, with Starbucks workers seeking their first union contract. (VNY)
     

  • As reforms slash the cost of prison phone calls, telecom companies pivot to predatory pricing for tablets. (Prism)
     

  • Amazon tried to hide its sky-high warehouse injury rates, senate report finds. (WaPo)
     

  • Remembering John Lewis writing fellow, Janie Ekere (1998-2024).
     

  • Corporate rehabs are luring addicts with free housing and sham treatmentwith disastrous consequences. (NYT)

December 13, 2024

Hello Servitude? Meal kit company investigated for child labor

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Osseus, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

  • The feds are investigating a subsidiary of the HelloFresh meal kit service after getting reports of teens working dangerous late-night jobs. (NYT)
     

  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces new overdraft protections that could save Americans $5 billion a year. (CNBC)
     

  • Hillman Prize-winner Sean Morrow got a surprise call from TMZ after authorities suggested he might be the UnitedHealthcare shooter because of his critical coverage of the insurance industry. (WaPo)
     

  • Beloved Montana oncologist exposed as a quack after a spate of suspicious deaths, including one chemo patient who didn’t have cancer after all. (ProPublica)
     

  • New moms are getting their babies taken away because they tested positive for drugs the hospital gave them in labor. (Marshall Project)

December 6, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Hegseth's Confirmation Prospects Dim

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Pete Hegseth’s confirmation prospects dim as his secret history comes to light. (ABC, NYer, WaPo)
     

  • Amazon drivers don’t officially work for Amazon, but California Teamsters are trying to change that. (LAist)
     

  • Wisconsin court restores collective bargaining rights for public employees. (PBS)
     

  • Penis pills and raw milk: Meet RFK Jr’s scam army  (Nation)
     

  • Unmasking the anonymous neo-Nazis of X. (Texas Observer)

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