Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

July 2018

July 27, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Punching the Clock for $$, Minimum Wage Victory, and Massive Voter Purges

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Kristine, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

States purged 16 million voters between 2016 and 2018.
California bosses will have to pay workers for time spent punching in and out.
A big victory in Birmingham’s fight to raise the minimum wage.
After the Raid: The legacy of Postville
Anna March, Literary Grifter Extraordinaire

July 20, 2018

Sidney's Picks: The Trauma of Detention; Ocasio and Socialism, and Cockfighting Confidential

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Adam Cohn, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

“This is not how I gave them my son”: 46 days in immigration detention leave lasting toll
Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bring socialism to the Democratic Party?
Trump nominee was the architect of a legal strategy that could bankrupt unions post-Janus.
Indictments reveal deep Russian infiltrationinto U.S. election infrastructure.
The cockfighting raid that up-ended a small town

July 13, 2018

Sidney's Picks: Kavanaugh, Russian Media Meddling, and Medicaid

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Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Kavanaugh is bad news for working people.
Russian operatives sought to exploit Americans’ trust in local news.
The human toll of Medicaid work requirements
Contractor admits to detaining migrant kids in a vacant office building.

July 6, 2018

Sidney's Picks: The Great Gateway Tunnel Shakedown and When Ice Takes Mom

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Creative Commons via Hopeful in NJ. A representation of the Gateway Tunnel Project courtesy of Sen. Frank Lautenberg & Amtrak.

The Best of the Week’s News:

The tunnel that could break New York
Kids struggle to survive on their own after ICE takes their parents.
The Army is turfing immigrants serving honorably on their path to citizenship.
Driver’s license suspensions are modern-day debtor’s prison.
CalOSHA opens a third probe of Tesla’s car factory.