October 2026

October 23, 2026

Sidney's Picks: The Next Pandemic?

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The Best of the Week’s News

Bird flu is ravaging an Utah mink farm. Humans rarely catch the deadly virus from birds, but they can catch it from mink. Federal authorities refuse to act. (ProPublica)
Many OB-GYNs were driven out of Idaho by the abortion ban, and those who stayed are struggling to hang on. (NYT)
Conspiracy theorists known as Sovereign Citizens are defrauding the Canadian government of tens of millions of tax dollars. (CBC, fifth estate)
Amazon is using AI to predict whether workers will join unions. (Novara Media)
Meet the unlikely rebels of Data Center Alley. (Nation/EHRP)
West Bank settlers attack a journalist. (WaPo)

October 16, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

Shareholder groups push Starbucks to restore labor committee. (Reuters)
A rural Pennsylvania town fights to save its hospital. (WHYY)
High school football players in Idaho threatened to lynch a female classmate in a group chat that referenced gang rape at Cornell. (WaPo)
Hillman judge Jamelle Bouie: If the Dems retake Congress, they better not mess around (NYT)
For Texas tweens, minor misbehavior at school can result in criminal charges. (NYT)

October 9, 2026

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A health worker vaccinates a child in West Africa, USAID, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

How Trump’s revenge campaign descended into disarray, rancor, and recrimination. (NYT)
Nearly 40,000 missing neighbors: The ICE arrests in New York and New Jersey (Gothamist)
ICE has arrested more than 500 U.S. citizens. (ProPublica)
Tuskegee 2.0: RFK revives an unethical medical experiment that would deny the lifesaving hepatitis B vaccine to babies in West Africa. (Rolling Stone)
Texas AG and flailing senate candidate Ken Paxton is harassing pediatricianswith frivolous investigations into their vaccine prescriptions. (NYT)
ICE shock gloves traumatized soldiers who volunteered to get zapped for testing. (AP)

October 2, 2026

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The Best of the Week’s News

An Idaho family that believes in faith-healing over medical care lost four children to untreated diabetes, and authorities were powerless to intervene. (ProPublica)
Prosecutors say Andrea Shaw smothered her twin babies, she blames vaccines. (NYT)
Heat stroke killed one man and left another paralyzed, but their employer is still sending workers on H-2A visas into the fields. (Prism)
Rideshare drivers want a fair hearing before being kicked off the apps. (Capital & Main)
Tennessee authorities claim they followed their protocol for the botched execution of Christa Pike, but that may not be true. (NewsChannel 5)