September 2024 | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

September 2024

Sidney's Picks: Militias and conspiracy theorists are scheming to disrupt the vote

The Best of the Week’s News

  • How the far right is preparing to suppress the vote and dispute the election. (Barbed Wire) 
     

  • How Russia covertly shapes conservative US media. (NYT)
     

  • Meet the civil servant who solved the problem of roof collapses in coal mines and other outstanding federal workers in this new series. (WaPo)
     

  • Donald Trump teamed up with a colon-cleaning pickup artist to sell crypto. (Bloomberg)
     

  • Taylor Swift endorsement of Harris/Walz drives over 400,000 visitors to voter registration site in 24 hours. (CBS)
     

  • International Criminal Court considers whether to make ecocide a crime akin to genocide and war crimes. (Guardian)

Sidney's Picks: MAGA's Boys

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)