New Mexico Launches Universal Free Child Care
New Mexico just did the radical thing of treating child care like infrastructure, not a luxury add-on. Starting Nov. 1, every family, regardless of income, gets free child care, with parents saving about $12,000 per child each year. The state is recruiting more licensed home providers and seeding a $12.7 million low-interest loan fund to build and renovate facilities. With 60 percent of 3 and 4 year olds not enrolled in school, this aims to close a gaping access gap, lift workforce participation, and give toddlers a fighting chance. A policy that helps kids and the economy, try to contain your shock.
Orcas Refine Liver-Only Dining, Great Whites Provide The Entrée
In the Gulf of California, the Moctezuma pod of orcas has been filmed flipping juvenile great white sharks into tonic immobility, opening them with surgical precision, and sharing the fat-rich liver that can be a quarter of a shark’s mass. Recorded in 2020 and 2022 and published in Frontiers in Marine Science, the hunts echo South Africa’s orca attacks, though Mexico’s predators target younger sharks, suggesting group-specific learning. Drones are finally catching behavior that may be centuries old, and researchers warn it can reshape ecosystems, as great whites have been known to abandon feeding grounds after repeated orca ambushes. Nature, where the tasting menu bites back.
Wall Street Eyes Venezuela, Talks Of Renewal While Counting Returns
As rhetoric hardens against Caracas, bankers are already workshopping the sequel. Barclays hosted heavyweight funds with opposition figure María Corina Machado during IMF-World Bank week, while her team courted multilateral lenders. UBS dubbed a post-Chavismo Venezuela a land of opportunity, citing oil reserves, farmland, and logistics, the kind of clean slate you only get after years of economic arson. Republican hawks promise private capital will rebuild, not taxpayers, while investors want basics restored first, like property rights and sanctions relief. Analysts sketch three paths, an internal military ouster, a major U.S. operation, or a negotiated transition that preserves some regime elements, each with its own risk-reward spice. The public pitch is drugs, the roadmap sounds like regime change, and the rush is very much about deals.
Trump Cranks The Caps Lock, Warns Of Doom If Voters Defy The GOP
In a late push aimed at Virginia and New Jersey, Donald Trump told Americans to vote Republican or you will rue the day that you voted to destroy your life. Subtle it is not. Routine state races are recast as an apocalyptic loyalty test, fear traded in by bullhorn rather than dog whistle. It is politics as melodrama, and the volume knob is stuck on max.