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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

July 2025

Sidney's Picks: ICE Lawyers Hide their Names in Court

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The Best of the Week’s News

  • It’s not just the masked agents, ICE lawyers are hiding their names in court. (Intercept) 
     

  • Republicans vote to defund PBS and NPR. (NYT)
     

  • The US will incinerate 500 metric tons of emergency food aid rather than distribute it to starving children. (Atlantic) 
     

  • Justice Department hits states with broad requests for voter data and two thirds of the lawyers defending the Trump administration in court have quit. (WaPo)
     

  • A proposed Trump policy could leave 1.4 million poor renters homeless. (AP)

Sidney's Picks: Trump May Double the Price of Coffee to Help a Fascist

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The Best of the Week’s News

Sidney's Picks: The Budget by the Numbers

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The Best of the Week’s News
 

  • The horrors of the Republican budget in 10 charts. (NYT)
     

  • “Free fall”: A public health crisis looms as RFKjr attacks vaccines. (TNR)
     

  • Camera catches ICE agents urinating in a California schoolyard. (NYT)
     

  • Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms’ futures uncertain. (Reuters) 
     

  • Putin bombards Ukraine in one of the most intense attacks of the war after call with Trump. (WaPo)