January 2026

January 23, 2026

Sidney's Picks: Anti-ICE General Strike Underway in Minneapolis

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The Best of the Week’s News

ICE authorized agents to break into homes without a judicial warrant, secret memo shows. (AP)
General strike to oppose ICE is underway in Minneapolis. (TNR, MN Reformer)
Martin Luther King Jr’s son urges the Supreme Court to save the Voting Rights Act and our democracy. (NYT)
The Sistine Chapel of the New Deal may be destroyed. (WaPo)
Planned CDC-funded, Tuskegee-style vaccine study in Africa is called off. (NYT)
Abortion bans are killing women with high-risk pregnancies. (ProPublica)

January 16, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

ICE will hire anyone. Laura Jedeed proved it. (Slate)
If an ICE agent orders you to exit your car, do you have to obey? Maybe not. (NYT)
Eric Adams returned to private life as a crypto huckster. A million investor dollars went missing on Day One. (Hellgate, NYT)
UAW defends the free speech of a member who was suspended for calling Donald Trump a pedophile protector. (Politico)
In a dramatic escalation, the FBI executed a search warrant on the home of a Washington Post reporter who covered Trump’s assault on the federal government. (WaPo)
The Pentagon moves to strip Stars and Stripes of its Congressionally-mandated journalistic independence. (AP)

January 9, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

New records show the mess Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. left when he dumped a road-killed bear cub in Central Park to stage a bike crash. (Wired)
The ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis is identified as Jonathan Ross. (Star Tribune)
Hillman Prize-winner Elie Mystal on why Minnesota should prosecute Good’s murderer. (Nation)
She championed Black women’s health as a midwife, but died after giving birth to her first child. (NBC)
Barrett Prize-winner Phillipe Sands on Trump, Venezuela, and the future of international law. (Legal AF, video)
J6 insurrectionist pardoned by Trump faces sexual assault charges, and he’s not alone. (Raw Story)