September 2026

September 25, 2026

Trump Saved Susan Collins from a Bribery Probe

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The Best of the Week’s News

Amazon drones besiege a Texas town. (NYT)
Trump saved Susan Collins from a bribery probe. (ProPublica)
Mamdani secures $131 million settlement for underpaid DoorDash drivers. (Guardian)
Anti-union consultant posed as organizer to lure workers at the Golden Krust restaurant away from their union. (DocumentedNY)
ICE officer was not wearing a body cam when he shot an Austin man last week. (Texas Tribune)
The White House banned Politico for reporting on an official background briefing. (WaPo)

September 18, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

Employees of Microsoft and OpenAI knew they were committing “the largest theft of labor in human history,” court documents show. (NYT)
Trump is sending Somali immigrants with no criminal records to Guantanamo. (Mother Jones)
52 babies were hospitalized for botulism linked to formula, but the FDA insists the formula supply is safe. (ABC News 7)
A Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin paid for Donald Trump, Jr.’s tropical wedding celebrations. (ProPublica)
Why does New York City’s police commissioner keep putting the most compromised cops on the most problematic units? (HellGate)
Republican who marched with the Nazis in Charlottesville is expected to win a seat in Florida’s state legislature. (TPM)

September 11, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

The bathos of Trump’s fake convention. (Nation)
Despite warnings, child sexual abuse images persist on Elon Musk’s X. (NYT)
Deaths from ectopic pregnancies have doubled and abortion bans are largely to blame. (ProPublica)
Trump’s Venezuela deal helps his rich friends and nobody else. (MoJo)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani creates an office of worker rights to build union power in New York City. (NYT)
The quixotic fight to leak-proof the New York City subway system. (NYT)

September 4, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

The labor movement bids a fond farewell to union sister Dolly Parton. (Nation)
Maria Bartiromo was fired from Fox News, allegedly for leaking to the White House details of the network’s policy of not discussing Trump’s outlandish election conspiracy theories (Daily Beast)
Democrats warn that the Pentagon is so broke that it’s siphoning moneyfrom the National Institutes of Health. (TNR)
Trump’s bribe jet lacks the critical security features needed to fly it outside the U.S., but he wants to take it to Ireland next week. (WaPo)
One of Elon Musk’s DOGE kids applied for college credit for trashing the government. (Wired)
Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin arrested for contempt of court while working as an extra on a Christian film. (LPM)