Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

August 2024

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

Approval of unions nears its highest level since the 1960s. (HuffPo)
The Hungry Skies: Homelessness haunts flight attendants. (WaPo)
In a blow to press freedom, two Hong Kong editors are convicted of seditionfor their pro-democracy coverage. (NYT)
Going undercover as a private security guard. (Harper’s)
Boar’s Head plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak broke food safety rules
dozens of times. (AP)
California embraces Indigenous land management techniques to combat wildfires. (Prospect)

August 23, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Union Boom Overwhelms NLRB

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Change to Win, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

The unionization boom is overwhelming the National Labor Relations Board, that’s why we need the Employee Free Choice Act. (NYT)
The messy, drama-filled world of an American militia. (ProPublica)
Trump doesn’t even pretend to care about the working class. (NYT)
Sparks fly in the trial of a former Arizona public official charged with murdering an investigative reporter who exposed his misdeeds. (WaPo)
“He’s an agent”: An alleged rape and a culture of silence in the Border Patrol. (MoJo)

August 16, 2024

Sidney's Picks: Seventy Miles in Hell

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Darién forest, by Steelman2004, Creative Commons.

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

Did Trump take 200 pounds of cash from Egypt’s dictator? We’ll never know because AG Bill Barr shut down the investigation. (WaPo)
Why labor abuses, like this forced hysterectomy program, persist in the supply chains of major brands, despite monitoring efforts. (NYT)
Kamala Harris is destroying stereotypes in her bid for the presidency (New Yorker)
Journalist Evan Gershkovich and dissident Valdimir Kara-Murza have been freed in the largest U.S.-Russia prisoner swap since the Cold War. (AP)

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