Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Obamacare, The Dark Web, and Poverty Wages

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

GOP moderates and a united Democratic caucus save Obamacare
Someone is selling over 40 million voter records on the Dark Web.
When the government pays poverty wages
William Regnery II: Moneyman of the racist right

July 21, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Self-Pardons, Criminalizing Protest, and the Blue Collar Philanthropist

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

Can the president pardon himself?
Sidney-winner Sarah Maslin Nir reports on NY farm workers fighting for the right to organize.
States are criminalizing protest.
The Blue Collar Philanthropist

July 14, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Net Neutrality, Snot Snakes, and a Bizarre Suicide

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The mouth of a lamprey aka a snot snake, by US Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Region, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

FCC commish urges ALEC to help squash net neutrality.
Snot snakes snarl Oregon highway.
GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers commits suicide.
Read Trump’s lawyer’s bizarre tirade to a stranger.

July 7, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Wages, the "Journocaust," and a Lawful Good Bard

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Donkey Hote, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

Survey: Almost half of Americans spend their whole paycheck (or more) on basic expenses
Reporter deluged with alt-right death threats for exposing Redditor’s anti-semitic back catalog
Guns, lobbyists and sonograms: Is Texas the US’s future?
A Muslim recruit’s hazing death reveals a dark side of the US Marine Corps
James Comey as bard