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The Sidney Hillman Foundation@sidneyhillman.bsky.social · 4w agoThe July Sidney Award goes to @rosagoldensohn.bsky.social of @thecityreporter.nyc for exposing how organized crime is exploiting obsolete tech to steal hundreds of millions from New York's poorest residents.
IMPACT! Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report, by @deldeib.bsky.social
Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report
Two members of Congress are urging federal officials to monitor vitamin K shot refusals by parents and the potential consequences for their newborns, including severe bleeding or death.
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We’re thrilled to announce that The City Reporter’s Rosa Goldensohn is the recipient of July’s Sidney Award for her story exposing how organized crime groups are taking advantage of New York’s food stamp program. Thank you, @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-award...
Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins July Sidney Award for exposing theft of New Yorkers’ food stamps by organized crime
NEW YORK — Transnational organized crime groups are taking advantage of obsolete technology to steal food stamp benefits from New Yorkers. Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins the July Sidney for...
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Twenty percent of New York City residents rely on food stamps. They pay for groceries with cards issued by New York State, but these cards lack basic digital security features. Organized crime is installing skimmers at stores to steal up to a billion dollars a year from SNAP cards.
Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins July Sidney Award for exposing theft of New Yorkers’ food stamps by organized crime
NEW YORK — Transnational organized crime groups are taking advantage of obsolete technology to steal food stamp benefits from New Yorkers. Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins the July Sidney for...
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We are bombarded by anecdotes about food stamp beneficiaries supposedly stealing from the government, but Sidney winner @rosagoldensohn.bsky.social shines a light on a huge and preventable theft of benefits from needy people.
Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins July Sidney Award for exposing theft of New Yorkers’ food stamps by organized crime
NEW YORK — Transnational organized crime groups are taking advantage of obsolete technology to steal food stamp benefits from New Yorkers. Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins the July Sidney for...
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The July Sidney Award goes to @rosagoldensohn.bsky.social of @thecityreporter.nyc for exposing how organized crime is exploiting obsolete tech to steal hundreds of millions from New York's poorest residents.
Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins July Sidney Award for exposing theft of New Yorkers’ food stamps by organized crime
NEW YORK — Transnational organized crime groups are taking advantage of obsolete technology to steal food stamp benefits from New Yorkers. Rosa Goldensohn of The City Reporter wins the July Sidney for...
hillmanfoundation.org
Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.
Congrats @deldeib.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition! Babies are dying from a preventable condition; ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib wins the June Sidney for exposing the crisis @sidneyhillman.bsky.social
Babies are dying from a preventable condition; ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib wins the June Sidney for exposing the crisis
NEW YORK — Healthy newborns are hemorrhaging to death in the weeks after birth — and the deaths are almost entirely preventable. The Sidney Hillman Foundation’s June Sidney Award goes to Duaa Eldeib o...
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JUST FILED: New memo to Trump Administration urges Dept of Homeland Security to Sell Its Fleet of "Luxury" Jets open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...
ALERT: Democrats Push Trump Administration to Sell its New Fleet of Luxury Jets
Memo to Homeland Security De describes aircraft as"Flying monuments to a culture of waste, vanity, and misplaced priorities"
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If you were thinking “huh, wonder if they showed up at some voter’s house because there was some filler birthdate in the database, maybe something like super obvious from 126 years ago like, idk, 1/1/1900” than wow great guess spot on.
Congratulations to @deldeib.bsky.social of @propublica.org on winning the June Sidney Award for exposing a growing threat to infant health--babies are bleeding to death because more and more parents are refusing lifesaving vitamin K shots for newborns.
Babies are dying from a preventable condition; ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib wins the June Sidney for exposing the crisis
NEW YORK — Healthy newborns are hemorrhaging to death in the weeks after birth — and the deaths are almost entirely preventable. The Sidney Hillman Foundation’s June Sidney Award goes to Duaa Eldeib o...
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horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Congratulations to @deldeib.bsky.social of @propublica.org on winning the June Sidney Award for exposing a growing threat--babies are bleeding to death because more and more parents are refusing lifesaving vitamin K shots for newborns.
Babies are dying from a preventable condition; ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib wins the June Sidney for exposing the crisis
NEW YORK — Healthy newborns are hemorrhaging to death in the weeks after birth — and the deaths are almost entirely preventable. The Sidney Hillman Foundation’s June Sidney Award goes to Duaa Eldeib o...
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Congratulations to @deldeib.bsky.social of @propublica.org on winning the June Sidney award for exposing a growing threat to infant health--babies are bleeding to death because more and more parents are refusing lifesaving vitamin K shots for newborns.
Babies are dying from a preventable condition; ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib wins the June Sidney for exposing the crisis
NEW YORK — Healthy newborns are hemorrhaging to death in the weeks after birth — and the deaths are almost entirely preventable. The Sidney Hillman Foundation’s June Sidney Award goes to Duaa Eldeib o...
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"It is hard to wrap your head around how big a billion is, let alone a trillion, so it’s worth pausing to really take in just how obscene this sum is," writes Arwa Mahdawi. "If you spent $1m every single day it would take you more than 2,700 years to spend a trillion dollars."
Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire | Arwa Mahdawi
Becoming the world’s first trillionaire is only going to supercharge this sense of impunity and bring us one step closer to full-blown oligarchy
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Holy moly! ProPublica's documentary "Before a Breath: America's Stillbirth Crisis" won Best of Show in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism competition. 🎉🎉🎉Congrats Nadia Sussman, Lisa Riordan Seville @deldeib.bsky.social
2026 Best of Photojournalism – Winners - 2026 NPPA Best of Photojournalism
ProPublica’s Before a Breath: America’s Stillbirth Crisis has been named the 2026 Sony Electronics Best of Show. After a month of judging by more than 170 visual journalists, the National Press Photo...
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Happy Friday, enjoy Sidney's Picks:
Sidney's Picks: A Self-Proclaimed Degenerate is Running the Intelligence Community
The Best of the Week's News Pentagon hires pardoned J6er for top-secret anti-terrorism job as new investigation reveals that at least one in fifteen insurrectionists has been convicted of a new crime....
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Congratulations to @stjbs.bsky.social and @kolyncheang.bsky.social of @sfchronicle.com on winning the May Sidney Award for their devastating exposé of deaths in ICE custody from medical neglect.
San Francisco Chronicle wins May Sidney for Exposing Preventable Deaths in ICE Custody
NEW YORK — St. John Barned-Smith and Ko Lyn Cheang of the San Francisco Chronicle win the May Sidney for exposing the medical neglect behind deaths of detainees in ICE custody. The reporters obtained...
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Congratulations to @jameeljaffer.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 George Barrett Award for Public Interest Law from @sidneyhillman.bsky.social. In accepting the award, Jameel paid tribute to the Institute’s clients and partners, whose work defending democracy “should be a model for all of us.”
@polgreen.bsky.social won the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social award for opinion and analysis journalism for her work on migration. She speaks in the clip showing the audience -- nearly a full house to honor journalism for the public good:
It was an honor to accept the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism last night with @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social. The WIRED team's DOGE coverage was unmatched -- fight me, nobody did it better -- and we're grateful to the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for the recognition.
So thankful to @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for recognizing our coverage. We were the first to identify and start tracking DOGE's moves through the government: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt was an honor to accept the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism last night with @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social. The WIRED team's DOGE coverage was unmatched -- fight me, nobody did it better -- and we're grateful to the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for the recognition.
@propublica.org 's @gingerthompson.bsky.social & @dorisburkefpg.bsky.social win #Hillman26 SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial & Economic Justice. Thompson reported "Sick in a Hospital Town" about corporate/health care exploitation in Albany, GA for *FIVE years* -- very few newsrooms still do this.
#hillman26 prize for magazine journalism goes to @wired.com for their blistering expose, "Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government." Gripping, defiant in the best way speech by Wired's leader (I didn't catch her name), but I'm now behind in live-posting. I encourage you to read this work.
Hillman judge Harold Meyerson presents the Hillman Prize to @wired.com for their groundbreaking coverage of the DOGE vandalism spree on the federal government.
Lauren Caruba, Marin Wolf, Azul Sordo and team from The Dallas Morning News wins the Hillman Prize for Newspaper journalism for their 8-part series exposing the toll of Texas’s abortion ban on women and doctors. #Hillman26