September 2017

September 29, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Hugh Hefner, Private Jets, and Far-Right Memes

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The Best of the Week’s News

Hugh Hefner: Nightmare Boss
HHS Secretary Tom Price promises to pay for his private flights, at pennies on the dollar.
Texas GOP meme-master teams up with the German far-right
Puerto Rico’s slow-motion medical crisis
If you’re sick of politics in sports, blame the Department of Defense.

September 22, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Graham-Cassidy Lies, The Alt Right, and Mexican Journalists

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

The boys who cried #FakeNews on Graham-Cassidy
Undercover with the Alt-Right
Mourning a crusader for women’s health
“They used a power drill”: The state turns on Mexican journalists

September 15, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Fake News Capital, Houston EPA in Peril

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Veles, Macedonia, world capital of fake news. By Pero Kvrzica, Creative Commons.

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

Behold, the Fake News Capital of the World
Houston is awash in spilled chemicals, but the local EPA lab is closing
The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
Unions step up to fight deportations

September 8, 2017

Sidney's Picks: Our First White President, Facebook Fake News, and a Tale of Two Janitors

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

Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Our First White President”
How Michigan gambled and lost on charter schools
How Facebook undermines its own fake-news-fighting program
How sketchy rehab centers troll for clients online
A tale of two janitors

September 1, 2017

Sidney's Picks: DACA, Defunding Labor, and Trump's Opioid Snake Oil

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The Best of the Week’s News

What if Trump ends DACA?
Right wing alliance plots to “defund and defang” the labor movement
Trump offers snake oil solutions to the opioid problem
Utah nurse stands up to cop, refuses to take illegal blood sample, gets arrested

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