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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

June 2025

Sidney's Picks: Bill Moyers Dies at 91

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Gage SkidmoreCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • Legendary broadcaster Bill Moyers dies at 91. (AP)
     

  • Senate Republicans consider hiking federal employees’ pension contributions—except for members of Congress and their staff. (Politico)
     

  • Emil Bove told his DOJ subordinates he was willing to defy court orders to enforce Donald Trump’s agenda, now he wants to be a federal judge. (NYT, ABC)

     

  • 68-year-old Mexican man becomes the first ICE detainee in a decade to die in transit from a jail to a detention center. (Guardian)
     

  • DOGE cuts could cost the US $10 billion in lost economic activity. (CREW)
     

  • “I feel like I’ve been lied to”: Measles outbreak shakes faith in antivax platitudes as RFK takes his anti-vaccine ideology global. (NYT, NYer)
     

  • The Republican budget could kill one of the most effective tools for bird conservation. (WaPo)

Sidney's Picks: How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Appalachia

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Miner’s Monument, Bernard SpraggCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • ICE deported Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo to a notorious Salvadoran prison for standing next to a guy with tattoos. (Texas Trib)
     

  • How black lung came roaring back in Appalachia. (NYT)
     

  • The Senate’s budget reconciliation bill would sell off 40% of all public landand trigger a hospital apocalypse. (Wes Siler NL, Prospect)
     

  • A Christian nationalist Appeal To Heaven flew briefly above a US government agency. (Wired)
     

  • Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders get a 400% raise. (NYT)

Sidney's Picks: Can you prove you're a citizen?

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Brian HerzogCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • Can you prove you’re a citizen? ICE detains some U.S. citizens for months. (NYMag)
     

  • Jeffrey Epstein invested with Peter Thiel, and the disgraced financier’s estate, not his victims, are reaping the returns. (NYT)
     

  • Women who have miscarriages could be prosecuted in West Virginia. (Newsweek)
     

  • Trump puts a 22-year-old former Heritage Foundation intern in charge of key program countering hate crimes. (ProPublica)
     

  • Israel kills three journalists in attack on Gazan hospital as press freedom groups demand access to Gaza. (Middle East Eye, CPJ)