Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

December 2023

December 15, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Migrant Kids Risk Their Lives on Roofing Crews

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Darek Zon, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Migrant children are risking their lives on roofing crews. (NYT)
Black voters sue to protect their voting rights. (WaPo)
Judges make their own ethics rules. It isn’t working. (ProPublica)
“Captive on my table”: Surgeons are overusing a lucrative vascular procedure. A dissident is pushing back. (ProPublica)
How does a skydiving company with 28 deaths and nearly a million in unpaid penalties stay open? (SacBee)
The Traveling Pants: What happens to the millions of items U.S. consumers return each year? (Atlantic)

December 8, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Scandinavian Labor Coalition Stands Up to Elon Musk

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Marco Verch, Creative Commons.

Sidney’s Picks:

Broad-based labor coalition stands up to Elon Musk in Scandinavia. (CNBC, NYT)
Early-career NIH researchers vote to form a union. (Nature)
Washington Post journalists stage historic 24-hour walkout. (DCist, Politico)
Ballot initiatives: A new path to organizing Uber and Lyft? (OnLabor)
Profemur artificial hips failed, sending patients crashing to the floor. (KHN)
United Autoworkers announces audacious plan to unionize a dozen non-union plants at once. (How Things Work)

December 1, 2023

Sidney's Picks: Goon Squad Exposed

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Thomas Hawk, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

A band of sheriffs’ deputies terrorized rural MS with impunity. (MS Today)
Alabama paper targeted for it’s investigation into handling of COVID funds (WaPo)
An updated list of the journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza conflict. (CPJ)
NY appeals court rules that minimum wage increase for deliveristas must take effect. (Documented)
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary (NatSec Archive)
Ethics watchdogs applaud Senate subpoenas for Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow. (Guardian)