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Clear It with Sidney

Sidney's Picks: Unions Make Pitch for Harris

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Sidney's Picks: 500th Starbucks Store Goes Union

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  • 500th Starbucks store wins union election in Washington State. (Common Dreams)
     
  • A Trump win could threaten overtime pay for millions of workers. (HuffPo)
     
  • Hillman Prize-winner Ava Koffman on the billionaire pastors reshaping Texas politics. (NYT Mag) 
     
  • Bracing for Impact: Climate change disasters like Hurricane Helene are killing workers. (Jacobin)
     
  • Long-running Immigration and Customs Enforcement program trains civilians to use deadly force. (DocumentedNY)

Sidney's Picks: Trump's Plan to Gut the Civil Service

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Sidney's Picks: Local Governments Fight Anti-Union Laws

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  • States are passing anti-union laws, but local governments are fighting back. (IA Capital Dispatch)
     

  • A network of Georgia election officials is scheming to undermine the 2024 election as the state’s attorney general admits that the state’s election board is flouting the law. (Guardian, NYT)
     

  • How the Teamsters botched their presidential endorsement decision. (Slate)
     

  • Department of Justice expands investigation into the “Goon Squad,” a MS sheriff’s unit accused of torturing suspects for two decades. (NYT)
     

  • At least two pregnant Georgia women have died after their medical care was delayed due to the state’s abortion ban. (ProPublica)
     

  • “I’m a Black Nazi!”: North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s shocking posts about race, sex, and Martin Luther King. (CNN)

Sidney's Picks: Militias and conspiracy theorists are scheming to disrupt the vote

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  • How the far right is preparing to suppress the vote and dispute the election. (Barbed Wire) 
     

  • How Russia covertly shapes conservative US media. (NYT)
     

  • Meet the civil servant who solved the problem of roof collapses in coal mines and other outstanding federal workers in this new series. (WaPo)
     

  • Donald Trump teamed up with a colon-cleaning pickup artist to sell crypto. (Bloomberg)
     

  • Taylor Swift endorsement of Harris/Walz drives over 400,000 visitors to voter registration site in 24 hours. (CBS)
     

  • International Criminal Court considers whether to make ecocide a crime akin to genocide and war crimes. (Guardian)

Sidney's Picks: MAGA's Boys

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  • MAGA’s Boys: Young male voters are flocking to Donald Trump, but his policies harm their interests. (Guardian)
     

  • A former top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested for allegedly being a Chinese agent and the New York City police commissioner’s home was raided by the FBI. (Gothamist, BBC)
     

  • Lifesaving anti-hemorrhage drug yanked from hospital bedsides after anti-abortion legislators in Louisiana make it a controlled substance. (LA Illuminator)
     

  • Ben Sasse claimed an audit vindicated his extravagant spending as president a Florida university, but that audit never happened. (Alligator)
     

  • New York Times publisher warns that Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to freedom of the press. (WaPo)

Sidney's Picks: Approval for Unions Nears Highest Level Since 1960s

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Sidney's Picks: Union Boom Overwhelms NLRB

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Sidney's Picks: Seventy Miles in Hell

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  • A reporter joins migrants on a harrowing journey through the Darién Gap. (Atlantic) 
     
  • The grifting CEO of a bankrupt hospital chain that neglected patients dodges criminal investigations. (Prospect) 
     
  • Hidden cameras reveal how a co-author of Project 2025 is preparing to shape a second Trump term. (CNN, ProPublica)
     
  • In a warming world, deaths from extreme heat have just only begun. (NY Mag) 
     
  • San Francisco leads the nation in the race to save local news. (NYT)

VP Pick Walz is a Strong Ally of Labor

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  • Why prairie populist Tim Walz is good for workers. (NYT, Slate)
     

  • Project 2025 is Trump’s real campaign platform and it would devastate the working class. (WaPo, Guardian)
     

  • Republican-controlled Georgia elections board gives local officials new powers to delay certifying election results based on conspiracy theories. (NBC)
     

  • In historic win, workers at a Baltimore-area Apple Store secure a union contract. (CBS)

  • Former police chief faces a felony charge for ordering raid on a small town newspaper and its publisher. (NYT)

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