Everyone should be aware of what's barreling down on us. Please read this eye-opening piece, and then redouble your personal efforts to prevent it - whether that's by donating to Harris & down-ballot, writing postcards, making calls or knocking on doors.

This 👏 would 👏 decimate 👏 public 👏 health.

Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in G.O.P. Politics nytimes.com/2024/10/09/us/poli…

A careful, exhaustive and randomized study finds that subsidizing child care works ...

... really, really well:

"Using tax data and other administrative records, they found that every dollar spent on a program providing free, full-time day care for preschoolers generated $6 in economic benefits. Most of that return came from extra pay that parents could earn because they had additional hours of care for their kids."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

JinjaStatic: Static Website Generator using Jinja2 and ~100 lines of Python

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Discussions: discu.eu/q/github.com/DEADF00D…

#programming #python

Mastodon for Harris evening update, 10/9. Kamala Harris is so smart, so invested in rule of law and American constitutional democracy. Her candidacy is worth every dollar we can give it. secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…

Funds raised as of this post: $643,275.40
# of contributions: 7004
# of recurring contributions: 307

Current target: $650,000

With appreciation for all those who are behind this effort — H

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief reporting that a mutual aid hub will be setting up starting tomorrow in #Tampa, #Florida in the wake of #HurricaneMilton.

More info: itsgoingdown.org/mutual-aid-hu…

Reminder to anyone in the path of #Milton

When speaking to your insurance, do NOT use the word "flood". No matter what your claim is, do NOT say that word. Use the following words ONLY:

- hurricane
- wind-driven rain

Your insurance will try to trick you into turning it into a flood claim, so they can then categorically deny it. Don't fall for it.

#Notaflood #Hurricane #Milton

'Easy for Pierre #Poilivere to talk shit from the sidelines. Governing in the real world is much harder.'

#NoSecurityClearance #irresponsible #cdnpoli #canada

"Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don’t speak English, most of them Latin Americans harvesting oranges and tomatoes in the fields along Florida’s I-4 corridor, washing dishes in restaurants, cleaning hotel rooms and working construction.

For the Spanish speakers and a smaller number of African refugees , new lives in the U.S. were already a daily struggle because of the language barrier and lack of resources.

Milton has turned those obstacles into a matter of life and death."

Of course, a big part of it is fear of deportation, skepticism of help being offered by people in military and police uniforms, and justifiable doubt about reassurances that citizenship status will not be checked.

apnews.com/article/florida-imm…

#Milton

Trump 'Bidenomics' ad shows a Philly-area mom who really supports Kamala Harris (Helen Ubiñas/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

inquirer.com/opinion/donald-tr…
memeorandum.com/241009/p99#a24…

Anyone who says "I will harm whoever strikes my kid," if he is not regularly training, is just masturbating. You can say that you'd kick someone's butt for hurting your kid all you want, or that you'd grab a weapon and hurt them with it, but statements like that are totally meaningless ego stroking if you are not ready.

Violent altercations involve a great deal of stress. The less inoculated you are to combat stress, the more likely you are to either freeze up or submit to your opponent. Train or expect to lose, it is as simple as that.