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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

January 2025

Sidney's Picks: Meatpacking Giants to Pay $8 Million Child Labor Settlement

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Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News

  • Meatpacking giants agree to pay $8 million for hiring migrant children to work in slaughterhouses. (NYT)
     

  • Donald Trump’s allies waged a campaign of witness intimidation to confirm Pete Hegseth. (New Yorker)
     

  • Texas pays anti-choice “crisis pregnancy centers” $14 to hand out a box of donated diapers. (ProPublica)
     

  • Manhattan construction company accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars in wages from immigrant workers. (Gothamist)
     

  • Tech billionaires’ “war on woke” is a war on workers. (Salon)

Sidney's Picks: He Infiltrated the Oath Keepers

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Michael Tefft, Militia members, Illustration only, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News