August 2025

August 22, 2025

Sidney's Picks: Feds Raid John Bolton's Home After He Criticized Trump

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The Best of the Week’s News

Federal agents descended on the home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton after he savaged Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin and Kash Patel touts a plan to de-professionalize the FBI. (NYT)
Judge rules that Florida must stop sending detainees to “Alligator Alcatraz” and begin dismantling the brutal detention facility. (Politico)
Eric Adams advisor Winnie Greco slipped a City reporter a bribe in a bag of potato chips. (The City)
RFKjr has eliminated federal funding for lifesaving mRNA vaccines, tapped a notorious quack to frame vaccines for causing autism, and eliminated research into the environmental causes of autism. (Prospect, NYT, Politico)
Foundations commit $36.5 million to protect public media companies. (E&P)

August 15, 2025

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The Best of the Week’s News

As Trump assaults federal collective bargaining, Illinois governor JB Pritzker signs a bill to protect labor. (WTVO)
Trump’s tariffs ravage small businesses. (NYT)
Texas private schools are a morass of corruption and self-dealing, soon they’ll get taxpayer dollars. (Texas Tribune/ProPublica)
Subway cleaners underpaid during the pandemic will share a $3 million settlement. (NYT)
A massive high-quality study showed that aluminum in vaccines is safe for kids. RFKjr crashed out and demanded a retraction. The journal shrugged. (Reuters)

August 8, 2025

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The Best of the Week’s News

Antivax HHS Secretary kills nearly half-billion dollars worth of contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, technology that has saved millions of lives. (NYT)
McCarthy Redux: Pro-Trump group wages war on “subversive” federal workers. (Reuters)
How three simple labor laws helped organizers make inroads at Amazon and Uber in Canada. (On Labor)
The Veterans Administration terminates most of its union contracts as part of Trump’s push to outlaw most federal collective bargaining. (GovExec)
Rep. Corey Mills is a bigger scumbag than George Santos, and that’s saying something. (NYT)
The official death toll of the LA fires was 30, but the true toll may exceed 400. (WaPo)

August 1, 2025

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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)