July 2026

July 31, 2026

Sidney's Picks: Tish James Sues Kalshi

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The Best of the Week’s News

New York AG Tish James sues the Kalshi prediction market for allegedly being an illegal gambling operation. (CNN)
Coast guard rescuers save lives, but many suffer brain damage from years of piloting small boats amid the crashing waves. (NYT)
Breaking Monticello: How a right wing smear campaign tried to censor the brutality and the brilliance that defined Thomas Jefferson. (Prospect)
More than 1400 unaccompanied migrant children in New York State will lose access to a lawyer on Monday because a federal contract has not been renewed. (Gothamist)
Public defender org accused of illegally offering cash bonuses to disrupt a strike. (Queens Eagle)

July 24, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

Trump imposes new tariffs on the bizarre pretext that worker-friendly countries like Norway and New Zealand use forced labor to produce their exports. (Guardian)
The Department of Defense briefly subtracted the four U.S. troops killed by Iranian strikes in the Middle East last week from its casualty count on the grounds that they occurred after the war ended. (MS Now)
Peter Thiel’s scheme to put journalists on trial has flopped. (MSN)
MAGA congressman Max Miller is accused of misogyny and family violence and suspected by his ex-wife of breaking his two-year-old daughter’s collarbone. (MoJo)
Canadian Hillman Prize-winner Robert Cribb says big tech has the tools to stop the spread of child abuse images online, but chooses not to. (Walrus)

July 17, 2026

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The Reflecting Pool in better days, grahamvphoto, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

Killer ICE agent was a mentally ill, violent, brain damaged domestic abuser when he got the job. (AP)
Bags in the van of a Houston man killed by ICE contained salt for homemade Gatorade, not drugs, lawyer says. (NYT)
Shoddy application doomed the coating of the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool, not vandals with boxcutters. (WaPo)
A preliminary hearing for Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin undermines conspiracist narratives. (MSNow)
Climbing Workers United protest Northface over partnership with Movement Gyms. (Fashion United, Athletech News)

July 10, 2026

The Best of the Week’s News

Some DOGE records were deleted, federal investigators say. (WIRED)
Trump’s deregulation could stuff your 401(k) with risky investments. (ProPublica)
Republican senate hopeful Ken Paxton may have cast six illegal votes despite vowing to crack down on election fraud. (ProPublica)
Hachette Book Group workers vote to unionize. (NYT)
Pioneering labor leader Lillian Roberts has died. (AFSCME)
An ICE agent pointed a gun at a Montana motorist during a large raid near a summer camp. (Daily Montanan, NFTS)

July 3, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

AI is breaking bosses’ brains. (Futurism)
Workers at the Guggenheim Museum vote to authorize a strike. (Art Newspaper)
Prediction markets are giving arsonists a profit motive by letting people bet on whether their towns will burn. (HCN)
This disabled lawyer built an independent life, Trump’s Medicaid cuts could take it all away. (NBC)
Trump is using a secret no-bid contract to build his corrupt ballroom. (WaPo)