Early Addition: Do You Know What A Porcupine Sounds Like?

July 15, 2019, 10:46 a.m.

Plus a high-speed chase, new evidence that convenience store chain 7-Eleven may be run by witches, and more mid-day links.

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  • Donald Trump threatened four women of color in Congress—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar—on Twitter, telling them to "go back" to "the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came." Three quarters of these women were born in the U.S., so you might call it a self-own. Many people are also calling it racist.
  • An apparently intoxicated woman was arrested on the Jersey Shore after leading police officers on a high-speed chase, then biting one on the leg as he tried to take her into custody.
  • Two male academics went on NPR to discuss a book written by historian Sarah Milov, pulling extensively from her work without ever mentioning her name, or the book. It's The Cigarette: A Political History, thank you for your time.
  • Britain will make Alan Turing—a mathematician and "the father of computer science," who was chemically castrated in the 1950s because he was gay—the face of its new £50 note.
  • Good news for those of you commuting through famed local hellmouth, Port Authority, today: The bus terminal's air conditioning has been restored following Saturday's power outages.
  • Would you let a bee sting interrupt your Hollywood Bowl concert, or would you keep singing as you ripped the stinger from your foot, live onstage?
  • A baby in Missouri was born at 7:11 p.m. on July 11th (7/11), weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces, which really feels a little heavy-handed of 7-Eleven, unless the convenience store chain is run by witches and they are doing a spell.
  • Sound all the way up on this vid, it's non-negotiable: