Solidarity with the Global Climate Strikers! 

Sidney’s Picks: 

• How Amazon workers pushed for action on climate. 
   
• A look at the fiery destruction Bolsonaro has unleashed on the Amazon. 
   
• Don’t freak out, but we’re down 3 billion birds. Okay, maybe freak out.  
   
• Kavanaugh demanded that Times reporters lie in exchange for an interview. They declined. 
   
• Trump tried to force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election. 

Sidney’s Picks: 

• Private profits, public mayhem: Amazon’s rough ride 
   
• Customs and Border Patrol freezes people in hielaras, but ICE can’t keep vaccines chilled.  
   
• Why elite black athletes should ditch white colleges to play for HBCUs 
   
• Marianne Williamson is indignant that Erica Jong thinks it’s “weird” to believe thoughts can change the weather.

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• US won’t provide flu vaccines to migrants in detention, even though at least three kids have died of the flu in custody  
   
• Life in the Service Industry: Low wages, bad tips, unreliable hours 
   
• Unpaid Blackjewel miners continue their standoff. 
   
• Inside Trump’s bizarre campaign to free rapper A$AP Rocky from Sweden.  

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• As the nation grieved the deadliest anti-Latino hate crime in living memory, the Trump administration launched massive immigration raids, separating families and losing track of kids. 
   
• Alexa, stop using child labor!
   
• Summer’s hottest domestic terror defense: Trump Made Me Do It
   
• Lifelong Detroit resident dies of diabetes on the streets of Iraq, a country he’d never even visited, after ICE deported him there. 
   
• El Monte, California passes a $30 minumum wage for rideshare drivers, the nation’s highest!