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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

June 2025

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)