Now that the Gulf of Maine (a few miles from where I sit) has become substantially hotter, endangered sea turtles find it attractive in autumn. In winter it gets too cold for them, and they try to go south -- but they get caught by Cape Cod. They don't know how to escape from the trap, and they die of hypothermia without months of medical care from humans.

Is there a way of catching them a somewhat earlier, when it would be sufficient to transport them to the south of Cape Cod and release them immediately?

Rich and powerful white males have long claimed that they are so rich and powerful because they are better than everyone else -- in effect denying the existence of racism and sexism.

They used to do this smoothly to make the claim appear plausible. Now they do it Republican style -- with blatant contempt for reality.

US thugs have a policy of preferentially stopping black drivers and inventing pretexts to search their cars. Each occasion might offer an opportunity to jail a black person, or perhaps cause per to be fired just for being arrested. Each time, it can push someone permanently into poverty.

Why allow employers to find out whether a person has been arrested? We have no obligation to give businesses that power. How about making it illegal for employers to ask for, record, or act on that information?

In the UK, if you order food delivered "from" some restaurant, in most cases the food is prepared not at the restaurant, but in a cooking sweatshop.

So it's not just the delivery couriers that are low-paid and worked to the bone, but the cooks too.

Is this system used in the US as well?

California has loosened regulations that made many small-scale businesses impossible.