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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

August 2025

Sidney's Picks: DOJ "Overlooked" Critical Whistleblower Complaint About Bove

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons

The Best of the Week’s News:

 

  • The Justice Department “overlooked” a critical whistleblower complaint against Emil Bove III for two months before his judicial confirmation. (NYT)
     

  • A judge blocks Kristi Noem’s bid to eject 60,000 migrants, citing secretary’s potential racial animus. (AP)
     

  • How Trump freed a triple murderer in a Venezuelan prisoner exchange. (El Pais)
     

  • The Smithsonian censors references to Trump’s impeachments in exhibit. (WaPo)
     

  • Scientists document the irreversible consequences of mass starvation in Gaza. (Wired)