March 26, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Lead Poisoning and Amazon BottleGate

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Vintage lead paint ad. Consumers could send away for this coloring book to teach children about the miracle of lead as an additive.
The Best of the Week’s News:
- These reporters became lead inspectors to expose a Florida smelter that was poisoning workers. (Tampa Bay Times)
- Amazon denied that its employees have to pee in bottles, but emails confirm the company knows about that, and worse. (Vice, Intercept)
- The NLRB says Amazon can’t have a company mailbox for union election ballots, but they do. (More Perfect Union)
- Ian Manuel survived 18 years in solitary confinement, a term that started when he was 14 years old. (NYT)
- Did CNN air staged footage of a migrant border crossing? (American Prospect)