And another day of planting seeds, MAGA coming for professors, the GOP propping up liberal third-party candidates, Moms for Liberty embracing Trump, Israeli protests, the AfD winning in Germany, taking on Ableist language, and modern parenting comes to a close:
“There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast. That’s the universities.” — JD Vance
Democrats grow concerned Republicans are planting seeds with legal suits to overturn a Trump defeat. All these claims look different on the surface. But the Harris campaign says there’s a pattern tying them together: Trump and his Republican allies want to sow confusion about the outcome should he lose. Democrats have submitted legal filings in at least one case that convey their misgivings about what they contend is the true purpose of the GOP litigation.
‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration. Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women “choose a path to misery” when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in which he also claimed men in America were “suppressed” in their masculinity. The Ohio senator and vice-presidential candidate said of women like his classmates at Yale Law School that “pursuing racial or gender equity is like the value system that gives their life meaning … [but] they all find that that value system leads to misery”. Vance also sideswiped the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a one-time Somali refugee, claiming she had shown “ingratitude” to America, and that she “would be living in a craphole” had she not moved to the US...Vance also talked about institutions like universities and the media as components of a “broken elite system”, and portrayed their inhabitants as enemies whom conservatives would need to reckon with. “There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast. That’s the universities.” — MAGA will, indeed, be coming for university and college professors. History is once again repeating itself.
GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes. Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor former President Donald Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates such as West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee...Trump has offered praise for West, calling him “one of my favorite candidates.” Another is Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Trump favors both for the same reason. “I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%.” — A vote for a third-party candidate is a vote for Trump.
Moms for Liberty fully embraces Trump and widens role in national politics as election nears. The weekend’s gathering, drawing parent activists from across the country, has showcased how Moms for Liberty has moved toward fully embracing Trump and his political messaging as November’s election draws nearer. The group is officially a nonpartisan nonprofit that says it’s open to anyone who wants parents to have a greater say in their children’s education, yet there was little pretense about which side of the nation’s political divide it has chosen. A painting that was prominently displayed on an easel next to the security station attendees had to pass through before being allowed into the conference area showed Vice President Kamala Harris kneeling over a bald eagle carcass, a communist symbol on her jacket and her mouth dripping with blood.
Israelis erupt in protest to demand a cease-fire after 6 more hostages die in Gaza. Tens of thousands of grieving and angry Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza, chanting “Now! Now!” as they demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach a cease-fire with Hamas to bring the remaining captives home.
A German far-right party wins its first state election and is very close in a second. A far-right party won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country’s east on Sunday, and looked set to finish a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a second vote...The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, won 32.8% of the vote in Thuringia — well ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union, the main national opposition party, with 23.6%... — The far-right cancer is a worldwide scourge on the planet.
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton says Republicans are 'open' to Trump’s IVF plan but that it should be ‘fiscally evaluated’. On Sunday, moderator Kristen Welker pressed Cotton about his support for Trump's plan, pointing out he voted this year against the Right to IVF Act, which would have mandated IVF coverage in federal health care plans, the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid plans.
Black students are still kicked out of school at higher rates despite reforms. “We need to end mass incarceration and mass criminalization, and that begins in the school,” said Monifa Bandele, a policy leader with the Movement for Black Lives. “Data shows that with each expulsion or suspension, students are more likely to end up in the criminal justice system.” In addition to being disciplined at higher rates, Black students receive more severe punishments than their white peers for similar or even the same behavior, said Linda Morris, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Two States Where the GOP Is Taking on Ableist Language. Nevada is one of 16 states, including Colorado and Mississippi, that still officially use the word “insane” to refer to people with mental illness in their constitution. Washington was the first state to remove the word from its constitution via a ballot measure, in 1988. Ableist language in government also remains an issue at the national level, with a Senate bill being introduced this year to try and get a slur for people with intellectual disabilities out of the US Code. Nevada is not the only state where voters will decide whether to remove ableist language in November. A similar measure in North Dakota—like Nevada’s, introduced by a GOP legislator with unanimous bipartisan support—would update names such as “state hospital for the insane” with language like “for the care of individuals with mental illness.”
Modern parenting is so stressful that the U.S issued a health advisory. Parents say it's overdue. On Wednesday, the U.S. surgeon general issued a public health advisory about the impact of modern stresses on parents' mental health. Considering that previous surgeon general advisories have included the risks of gun violence, and smoking, the public is paying attention. In addition to the traditional challenges of parenting — like protecting children from harm and worrying about finances — there are new stressors that previous generations didn't have to consider, said Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. These include social media, the youth mental health crisis, and increased financial strain as the cost of some necessities, like child care, have boomed, he said.
Young girls are using anti-aging products they see on social media. The harm is more than skin deep. Scarlett’s experience has become common, experts say, as preteen girls around the country throng beauty stores to buy high-end skin care products, a trend captured in viral videos with the hashtag #SephoraKids. Girls as young as 8 are turning up at dermatologists’ offices with rashes, chemical burns and other allergic reactions to products not intended for children’s sensitive skin.
Simple blood test could predict a person’s heart disease risk 30 years out, study finds. Ridker and his team found that in addition to LDL cholesterol, two other markers — a type of fat in the blood called lipoprotein (a), or Lp(a), and an indicator of inflammation — are important predictors of a person's risk of heart attack, stroke and coronary heart disease.
These monkeys use names to communicate with each other, study finds.
Marmosets can communicate with one another by name and know when they are being addressed, joining a very short list of species exhibiting such behavior, and a first for non-human primates, a new study has found. The monkeys use specific calls, known as “phee-calls,” to call each other, which scientists say is a “high cognitive” behavior pattern only previously observed in humans, dolphins and elephants.
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