Today the Soup Kitchen fed 271 hungry a meal of meatballs, pasta and salad. The homemade sauce was compliments of folks from the Community Garden who prepared it from the last of their tomato harvests.

Folks in need giving back to folks in need. The unselfish giving to others despite their own food insecurity...there just are no words for how this touches me so.

Helene will very likely undergo rapid intensification.

It could go from a tropical storm to a Category 3+ in barely 2 days.

Spreading of the air aloft (which sucks up warm, moist air from below) AND record high "hurricane fuel," or oceanic heat content, will make Helene mean.

Robinson rejected offers of tech help to investigate posts on porn site, sources say
#politics

https://www.wral.com/story/robinson-rejected-offers-of-tech-help-to-investigate-posts-on-porn-site-sources-say/21638904/

With Hotter, Drier Weather, California’s Joshua Trees Are in Trouble

In the Mojave Desert, rising temperatures, less rainfall, and more intense wildfires are killing off Joshua trees. California officials are working on a plan to protect the distinctive yucca tree and its desert ecosystem by establishing refuges and controlling development.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/joshua-trees-climate-change

#climatechange #conservation #biodiversity #JoshuaTree #nativeplants #ecosystem #Mojave

New ad for Harris, with voiceover from Sam Elliot.

#politics

I see Doug Emhoff and Gwen Walz campaigning for Harris-Walz 2024 every week.

But Melania Trump apparently won't campaign for Donald unless she gets a personal check for over 200 grand. And do we even have proof of life for Usha Vance?

Cigna is suing the FTC to redact its report on Pharmacy Benefit Managers.

Why? Probably because
ExpressScripts doesn't want it known they charge $3,613 for a $65 cancer drug.

Write your Congressional rep to support the Pharmacists Fight Back Act to end price gouging.

@NorCalCherylLyn @TemporaryTraveler Sure, it’s so much better to let your kids grow up with anger, fighting, guns, and frustration. Nothing bad could come of that!

So DJT stock is down almost below $12. If it had done so last week, Tяump would be disallowed from selling his own stock. WHO PROPPED IT UP LAST WEEK?

Shameless self promo time...

Magical artifacts. A deadly feud between noble families and their patron spirits. Mind control technology. Digital thought clones. Horses. An isolated ranch in NE Oregon.

THE COST OF POWER trilogy has all this and more! Available at all ebook vendors as well as Ingram.

https://books2read.com/rl/The-Cost-of-Power-Trilogy

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A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

The Bay Area News Group reported on Friday that Luis Armando Albino’s niece in Oakland – with assistance from police, the FBI and the justice department – located her uncle living on the US east coast.

More/source:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/23/luis-armando-albino-abducted-six-year-old-oakland-found

@NorCalCherylLyn @InvaderGzim @catlynne333 Replace his podium with an old-school, injured Captain Pike chair (circa TOS). And let it beep every now and then.

Dog Food Recalls | Dog Food Advisor

FDA warning after Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes are found in lots of Darwin's Natural Pet Products raw dog and cat food.

https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recalls/fda-warning-after-salmonella-and-listeria-monocytogenes-detected-in-darwins-natural-pet-products/

Deadly Fungal Infections Causing a 'Silent Pandemic', Scientists Warn

The world is in the midst of an antibiotic resistance crisis that contributes to the death of nearly 5 million people a year.

https://www.sciencealert.com/deadly-fungal-infections-causing-a-silent-pandemic-scientists-warn

Sen. Raphael Warnock Blasts Mark Robinson Over Alleged Racist Posts: He’s ‘White Supremacy In Blackface’

“I can tell you as the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King Jr. served, that Mark Robinson is no Martin Luther King Jr,” Warnock said. “He is the antithesis of everything that Dr. King represented. He is white supremacy in blackface.”

#News #Politics #NorthCarolina #Election2024

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/raphael-warnock-mark-robinson-controversy_n_66f13064e4b0f75ccbd9b9ca

Despite advances over the past century, women in 2024 still face numerous barriers to achieving full freedom, liberty, and justice. Yet, classically, all of these values have been symbolized as women.

Justitia (Lady Justice)- the Roman goddess of justice and Libertas (Lady Liberty)- Roman goddess of freedom.

Can you help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-honis-journey-to-healing-and-joy

This guy must be trying to escape DMV.

Commerce proposes ban on Chinese tech in connected vehicles over national security concerns

The newly proposed rule would ban the import of cars with vehicle connectivity systems and automated driving systems developed in China, as well as Russia.

“As the Department of Commerce has found, vehicles’ increasing connectivity creates opportunities to collect and exploit sensitive information,” the White House said in a press release.

#News #Technology #NationalSecurity

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4893944-biden-proposes-ban-chinese-tech-vehicle/