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! 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• U.S. citizen freed after 23 horrific days in ICE detention. 
   
• The McMindfulness scam
   
• The Road to “No”: Asylum-seekers risk everything to make their case, but the courts are rarely swayed.
   
• Contempt for Consent: A Toronto doctor’s downfall 
   
• Prospective Secretary of Labor’s writings raise eyebrows in the #MeToo era.