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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

April 2025

Sidney's Picks: A Union Battles Trump's Job Cuts

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The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • A union battles Trump’s federal job cuts. (NYT)
     

  • Wisconsin judge arrested for allegedly helping immigrant evade arrest by ICE agents. (MJS)
     

  • Republican tax cuts for billionaires might set off the debt bomb. (Atlantic)
     

  • DeSantis administration allegedly steered $10 million in Medicaid funds to a political slush fund. (Miami Herald)
     

  • Jaw-dropping corruption: The top buyers of Donald Trump’s meme coin get a White House tour and a gala dinner. (Guardian, MoJo)
     

  • Secretary of Labor threatens employees if they speak to journalists, which is not a crime. (ProPublica)

Sidney's Picks: DOGE may have stolen critical Labor Department data

The Best of the Week’s News

  • DOGE took reams of sensitive data from the Department of Labor and tried to cover their tracks. Then the login attempts from Russia started. (NPR)
     

  • Closing OSHA offices will not save money, but it will kill workers. (Confined Space) 
     

  • Appeals court calls Trump’s defiance over Abrego Garcia deportation “shocking.” (AP)
     

  • Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in NYC are getting emails from the feds ordering them to leave the country. (Gothamist) 
     

  • Columbia student and Green Card holder was personally targeted by Marco Rubio for deportation after getting a ticket at a pro-Gaza rally. (The City)

Sidney's Picks: Trump Must Bring Back Erroneously Deported Migrant

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The Best of the Week’s News

 

  • Supreme Court orders Trump to return Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant erroneously deported to a Salvadoran torture prison and held in an affront to due process. (WaPo, NYT)
     

  • DOGE may have broken the law to push illegal voting myth. (NPR)
     

  • Brooklyn school backed by Jay-Z promised students a debt-free graduation, but now they owe thousands of dollars. (The City)
     

  • Trump EPA wants to cancel greenhouse gas reporting program. (ProPublica)
     

  • Inside New York City’s homeless shelters for working people. (NYT)