Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

June 2025

June 20, 2025

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

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Miner’s Monument, Bernard Spragg, Creative 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)

June 6, 2025

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

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Brian Herzog, Creative 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)