Reading archive 2024-08-13 pt 1

Opinion What deporting 15 million people would look like: Democrats need to warn Hispanics what a vote for Trump really means. - "Other Trump voters appear willing to disregard the human costs of an unforgiving immigration policy. 'Terrible for those who came after. Congratulations to me,' Santiago Ferran Barnet, a Cuban immigrant, told the Miami Herald during a Trump rally. Other Trump supporters share this moral meanness and lack of empathy. 'Putting them in a camp and deporting them? It sounds great to me,' said Anais Refujol, a Trump voter from California, when asked about detention centers for recent Venezuelan immigrants. Ironically, Refujol herself earned citizenship after arriving as a refugee in 2004 — from Venezuela."

The lice will always win: We’ve been losing the war against lice since the dawn of humanity. Should we change how we think about them?

Blue crab invasion upends Italy’s culinary traditions and ecology: The blue crabs crossed the Atlantic as stowaways, and with no natural predators they’re overtaking Italy’s marine ecosystem.

Russians evacuated from Kursk as Putin grapples with Ukrainian incursion: The acting governor of the Kursk region said the situation is “complicated,” with Ukraine’s forces now in control of more than two dozen Russian villages.

The one thing you should look for on clothing labels when you go shopping

Why does it feel like everyone has an autoimmune disease?: Autoimmune diseases are rising worldwide, and it’s not purely explained by genetics.

The skate park was thriving. Then a right-wing YouTuber bought it.: Tim Pool’s purchase of an improvised skate park has riled skateboarders in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle.

Gold bar scams net millions in Montgomery County: ‘Money to be had here.’: Local and federal law enforcement officials warn residents to be on guard.

A youth sports giant took over city land. Neighbors are fighting back.: Local advocates have called Surf Cup Sports’ 120-acre complex “an environmental travesty” and accuse the city of San Diego of looking the other way.

A trio of silly, false claims that JD Vance makes about Kamala Harris: No, she doesn’t want to ban red meat or gas stoves or believe that people shouldn’t have children because of climate change.

Ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper faces felony charge: Gideon Cody allegedly tampered with an investigation into a raid of the Marion County Record and its publisher’s home, worrying press freedom advocates.

Musk’s chat with Trump was a peek inside the right-wing bubble: For more than two hours, the ideological allies struggled to be the most prominent voice in their conversation.

Does Donald Trump understand how the ocean works?: Once again Monday night, he claimed that rising sea levels would create “more oceanfront property.”

Former Colorado official found guilty for role in election equipment tampering: Tina Peters, a former county clerk, was accused of helping copy election information after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

Why newsrooms haven’t published leaked Trump campaign documents: The Trump campaign said the documents from a mysterious source came from an Iranian hack. The FBI is now investigating. - "In 2016, Trump relished Russian hacks of Democratic campaign emails, once asking the country to find more of Hillary Clinton’s emails with the phrase, 'Russia, if you’re listening.' 

"But in the aftermath of its own possible hack, the Trump campaign told reporters that to publish the material would be assisting a foreign state actor in undermining democracy. 'Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want,' Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement."

Opinion Hot tip: Both parties should stop bribing voters with tax cuts: Exempting tips from taxes is a terrible idea, regardless of which party is proposing it.

How Kate Cox Became a Reluctant Face of the Abortion-Rights Movement - "Trisomy 18 is almost always a fatal condition. In rare cases, babies with milder forms of the disease can survive for years, even into adolescence. But Cox’s doctor told her that there were so many malformations to her daughter’s brain, spine, and neural tube that the baby would probably die in utero. If not, she would be placed directly into hospice care after being born, where doctors did not expect her to survive more than a few days. 'Every single case of Trisomy 18 I’ve seen has demised—if not in utero, then within hours to days after birth,' says Dr. Damla Karsan, Cox’s Ob-Gyn. 'Even if they do survive, the standard of care is comfort care, do not resuscitate.'

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"'Kate was the first time since Roe was overturned that a woman who was currently pregnant, needing an abortion under the health exemption, went to a court to get a court order for an abortion,' Northup says. Her situation, Northup says, exposes how some medical exceptions to abortion bans are written in a way that makes them nearly impossible to apply. 'What Kate Cox’s case shows is that this argument of the states that they have exceptions to their blanket abortion bans for the health of the woman is false. They don’t have exceptions, and they won’t allow exceptions to be applied.'"