September 2024

September 27, 2024

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

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The Best of the Week’s News

Trump’s all in on Project 2025’s plan to replace civil servants with MAGA minions. (Guardian)
Jared Kushner’s private equity firm has reaped at least $112 million in fees from the Saudis, but produced no profits. (NYT)
A Mississippi town turned its jail into a Dickensian debtors’ prison. (MS Free Press)
Will AI’s outrageous energy consumption bring back Three Mile Island? (NYT)
How Russian spies recruit saboteurs on Telegram. (OCCRP)

September 20, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

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)

September 13, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

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)

September 6, 2024

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The Best of the Week’s News

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)