October 2020

October 30, 2020

Sidney's Picks: GOP Schemes to Steal PA's Electoral Votes by Delay

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The Best of the Week’s News:

The Trump campaign makes an all-out push to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians as election-defenders call out a potential bid to steal the state’s electoral votes. (NYT, New Yorker)
Republican voter intimidation is already being felt at the polls. (In These Times)
Video surfaces of Philadelphia police beating the driver of an SUV with a child in the back seat. (Philly Inquirer)
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was secretly on the board of a Chinese-US joint venture while heading up trade policy. (Foreign Policy)
In Duterte’s Philippines, fake news meets red-baiting and turns lethal. (Rest of the World)
Millions of people still haven’t received their stimulus checks. (ProPublica)
The Trump administration has rolled back over 125 environmental safeguards including opening “America’s Amazon” to timber sales to China. (WaPo, Outside)

October 23, 2020

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

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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

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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

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)