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Clear It with Sidney

September 6, 2024

Sidney's Picks: MAGA's Boys

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • MAGA’s Boys: Young male voters are flocking to Donald Trump, but his policies harm their interests. (Guardian)
     

  • A former top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested for allegedly being a Chinese agent and the New York City police commissioner’s home was raided by the FBI. (Gothamist, BBC)
     

  • Lifesaving anti-hemorrhage drug yanked from hospital bedsides after anti-abortion legislators in Louisiana make it a controlled substance. (LA Illuminator)
     

  • Ben Sasse claimed an audit vindicated his extravagant spending as president a Florida university, but that audit never happened. (Alligator)
     

  • New York Times publisher warns that Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to freedom of the press. (WaPo)

August 30, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Approval for Unions Nears Highest Level Since 1960s

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AFL-CIO, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

August 23, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Union Boom Overwhelms NLRB

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The Best of the Week’s News

 

August 16, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Seventy Miles in Hell

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • A reporter joins migrants on a harrowing journey through the Darién Gap. (Atlantic) 
     
  • The grifting CEO of a bankrupt hospital chain that neglected patients dodges criminal investigations. (Prospect) 
     
  • Hidden cameras reveal how a co-author of Project 2025 is preparing to shape a second Trump term. (CNN, ProPublica)
     
  • In a warming world, deaths from extreme heat have just only begun. (NY Mag) 
     
  • San Francisco leads the nation in the race to save local news. (NYT)
August 9, 2024

VP Pick Walz is a Strong Ally of Labor

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Tim Walz at the Twin Cities Pride Parade in 2017 by Mpls55408, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Why prairie populist Tim Walz is good for workers. (NYT, Slate)
     

  • Project 2025 is Trump’s real campaign platform and it would devastate the working class. (WaPo, Guardian)
     

  • Republican-controlled Georgia elections board gives local officials new powers to delay certifying election results based on conspiracy theories. (NBC)
     

  • In historic win, workers at a Baltimore-area Apple Store secure a union contract. (CBS)

  • Former police chief faces a felony charge for ordering raid on a small town newspaper and its publisher. (NYT)

August 2, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Did Donald Trump take a $10 million bribe from Egypt?

The Best of the Week’s News

 

 

  • Driving the Bus: A union bus operator reflects on safety, sustainability, and community. (Workday)

July 26, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Trump's Project 2025 Agenda and the Conspiracy Theorists Who Wrote It

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • Meet the far-right conspiracy theorists behind Project 2025, Trump’s real campaign platform. (New Yorker)
     

  • Kamala Harris draws cheers for fiery pro-labor speech at American Federation of Teachers’ convention. (Guardian) 

     

  • Succession IRL: Rupert Murdoch battles his heirs to preserve his media empire as a conservative force. (NYT)
     

  • World of Warcraft developers form the largest and most inclusive union at Blizzard Entertainment. (Verge)
     

  • Illinois becomes the latest in a series of Blue states to ban anti-union “captive audience” meetings. (HuffPo)

July 21, 2024

Sidney's Picks: JD Vance's Venmo Buddies

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Donkey Hotey, Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Trump claims the Republicans are pro-worker, but Project 2025 would devastate labor. (NV Current) 
     
  • Trump’s “populist” VP pick J.D. Vance left his Venmo public, revealing his ties to the elite. (Wired)
     
  • Russian court convicts WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich on bogus charges of espionage. (WaPo)
     
  • The rise of the “union curious”: New report finds young workers most receptive to unionization. (EPI)
     
  • Elon Musk spreads election fraud lies, pledges $180 million to reelect Trump. (MoJo)
July 12, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Project 2025 is Trump's Real Campaign Platform

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Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons. 

The Best of the Week’s News

July 5, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Biden Announces New Heat Protection Rules for Workers

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Carol Van Canon, Creative Commons.

  • Biden announces new heat protections for workers, takes climate change deniers to task. (NYT)
     
  • How the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling sets the stage for dictatorship. (Vox)
     
  • Reporter finds passion for journalism behind bars, exposes neglectful prison health system. (NYT)
     
  • “Some folks need killing!”: NC GOP gubernatorial candidate calls for political violence as “a matter of necessity.” (TNR)
     
  • Iran condemns labor leader to death. (VOA)

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