This and that for your Sunday reading.

– Mark Kreidler notes that people from around the globe are staying away from the U.S. in droves – due to both the risk of being a foreigner in a country looking to detain anybody fitting that description, and the desire to avoid rewarding a rogue regime. And Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson write about the increasing number of Americans choosing to leave the U.S. rather than suffering under the violence and corruption of the Trump administration. 

– Sadiq Khan highlights how UK Labour has only hurt itself by imposing right-wing bigotry as policy rather than giving effect to the progressive values of its base. And Justin Ling questions Mark Carney’s cheerleading for the U.S.’ wars of conquest, while Lloyd Axworthy discusses how Carney has chosen to enable (and indeed embrace) U.S. aggression in violation of international law. 

– Ajit Niranjan reports on the shocking loss of marine life as a result of the climate breakdown, with drops in marine biomass of up to 20% in a single year. Greg Harman discusses new modeling showing that over 2% of all deaths in a Texas summer – numbering up to a thousand in any given year – can be traced back to extreme heat caused by global warming. And Sadie Harley examines how carbon dioxide levels in the human body are increasing dangerously. 

– Hayley Smith discusses yet another pernicious application of artificial intelligence, as fabricated “public comments” were used by a California environmental authority as reason not to phase out fossil gas appliances. 

– Finally, Erika Edwards reports on the tens of millions of dollars in traceable losses caused by the anti-vaxxers’ choice to spread measles in the U.S. – while hinting at far more severe damage which may never be observable.