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More local news from Southern California

An out-of-control wildfire fueled by heavy winds was tearing through a community northwest of Los Angeles for a second day Thursday after destroying dozens of homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee when it exploded in size in only a few hours. The Mountain Fire prompted evacuation orders Wednesday for more than 10,000 people as it threatened 3,500 structures in suburban neighborhoods, ranches and agricultural areas around Camarillo in Ventura County, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. There was zero containment Thursday morning. The National Weather Service said a red flag warning, which indicates conditions for high fire danger, would remain in effect until 6 p.m. Winds were expected to decrease significantly by Thursday night but humidity levels will remain critically low, forecasters said. Officials in several Southern California counties urged residents to be on watch for fast-spreading blazes, power outages and downed trees during the latest round of notorious Santa Ana winds.

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Public Health policies are necessarily one-size-fits all. They are monitored scientifically to ensure that overall they are doing what they're intended to do. This policy cannot account for individual differences. If you are vaccine-injured or chemically sensitive, talk to your doctor about declining the shots. I have been vaccine-injured twice, and I have found my providers very conscientious in exempting me.

For years now, I have been railing against the Republican Party as a literal – literal – Party of Plague. In these closing days of the campaign, they have quadrupled back down on this in ways that will kill millions of Americans.

Not ���might.” Will.

Appointing RFK, Jr. as czar of public health and letting him “go wild” will kill millions. Again, not might: will. Not immediately, no, but over time. Trump himself is utterly refusing to promise he and his party won’t ban vaccines and said on Sunday that RFK Jr.’s pledge to eliminate fluoridation of water on day one “sounds OK to me.”

If they do this and make it stick, millions will die. And an outsized number of them will be children.

Courtesy McNadoMD on Mastodon, here are a few of the diseases mass vaccination eliminated from American life, and which banning vaccination will bring back, along with some of their symptoms and progression paths.Howdy folks! Friendly neighborhood ER doc here. Did you know that Trump’s folks want to take vaccines off of the market? That means you can’t get a shot even if you want one. Did you know that the tetanus shot is a vaccine? If you want your kids to be safe from lockjaw (caused by tetanus), you want vaccines to be available. You know what else is a vaccine? Rabies shots. If a rabid dog or bat bites your kid, do you want your kid to be able to be treated before they die of rabies?

Lockjaw and rabies:

Diphtheria:

Whooping cough:

Polio:

You get the idea, right?

These aren’t the only ones. These are just a few of those less often mentioned in these modern times, because people have forgot they exist.

When I say the Republican Party is a Party of Plague, when I say it is a goddamn death cult, I mean every single one of those words in every way you might think.

They are promising economic ruin and they are promising ethnic purges and now they are promising mass death of children.

All while killing pregnant people for their vile sense of domination, of course. Let us never forget that, since their families certainly won’t.

One of the things their apologists keep saying is that “Trump doesn’t mean it” and “Trump won’t do it,” and “That’s just Trump being Trump,” and they talk about “Trump derangement syndrome,” and say that we’re stupid for believing what their candidate fucking says he’ll do, and meanwhile, they get enraged about shit they completely make up about us and the candidates who are with us.

We react to things their candidates promise. They react to shit they make up wholesale about us. We are not the fucking same.

If only the political press would catch on to that fact.

The very last day of a campaign is a pretty lousy time to bring up another topic, even if it’s not really new. But this is, again, so murderously psychotic that I can’t not bring it back up.

Maybe you can bring it up, too, on this final day of this hellish and evil campaign, this Monday, November 4th, 2024.

Zero days remain.

It is Lastday.

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THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IS ORGANIZED WARFARE!!

In the lead-up to the recent election, feeling coerced as so often before by the forced binary choice of our Two-Party system, I heard someone on Youtube comment that this system was actually set up by the Constitution. Maybe this was obvious to anyone who received a proper Liberal Arts education, but I attended a gods-forsaken high school on the outskirts of L.A. back in the early Sixties and we never got any content beyond the Dred Scott decision. So I had to do a little digging.

The two-party system needs to be compared to a Proportional Representation system, ie the Parliamentary systems in use elsewhere around the world, where numerous splinter parties contend with each other in the legislative body. While more representative, this leads to frequent stalemates and legislative collapses, with subsequent physical rows and sudden government failures. By contrast we can say that our system, as much as it vexes us, has held continuity for 235 years, even, in the North, through the American Civil War and periodic changes in the composition of the parties.

The article which clarified this for me was found on the Encyclopedia Britannia site, "Two-Party System." The idea was to build parties strong enough to take full control and execute their policies unopposed for their term of office. To do this they must build coalitions able to achieve 51% or more electoral success. This is done by a "winner take all" rule. Contending factions must somehow contrive to work together to achieve a coalition that can take power and administer it effectively.

Under this system, Third Party contenders can split the factions just enough to make the whole configuration untenable. Seeing this vulnerability can inspire upstart movements, but overall the Two-Party system has proven itself durable and resilient, as much as its contradictions vex us all.

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Please don’t relapse because of the election.

Please don’t relapse because of the election.

I know feeling despair and or out of control is one of the biggest triggers out there and this is not an easy pill to swallow.

But continuing to thrive while Trump and his supporters rely on your downfall is the best way to tell them all to go fuck themselves.

It’s okay if you see this too late and you have already relapsed because of the election. Just please try your best to not let the failure in democracy lead to a failure in recovery. Relapse is normal, this election is not.

Please stay safe and stay with safe people. It’s okay to miss work or take off school tomorrow if that is an option. This is emotionally taxing and highly stressful. Take care of yourself. Thriving right now is the best revenge you can get on Trump and republicans.

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Jill Stein is once more trying to insert herself into a very close race. Yes, Israel Genocide is issue one, but with slivers of percentiles at stake she is making the situation worse. Her best power move would be to negotiate with Harris for her support. Harris must be shown that she cannot continue Biden policies on this issue.

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The Israeli army mined and completely blew up the Lebanese border village of Mahbib in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army brings the same systematic destruction of civilian areas with which it wreaked havoc in Gaza to Lebanon. 16 Oct 2024

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Thank you, @mysteryoftheuniverse

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Hurricane Helene devastates western North Carolina (Updated)

Things are unimaginably bad in western North Carolina & far eastern Tennessee right now. Whole towns have been swallowed by landslides, mudslides and floods. That's Chimney Rock, NC, below; photos taken from same location after/before the storm.

Interstate 40 is impassible at the Tennessee/North Carolina border, due to the eastbound lanes being washed into the Pigeon River. (See above photo.) Essentially all roads are closed in the region. 400,000+ customers are reported without power, and cell towers are damaged or down, so nobody can reach anyone, and we don't know the full scale of the damage yet.

Shared by North Carolina's Weather Authority page on Fb 9/28:

“I’m sorry to text so early. Our friend, Steve, Black Mountains Police Chief, got home this morning to get some rest and then he’s headed back to Black Mountain. He’s been up for 72 hours evacuating and rescuing. It’s catastrophic in that area. Montreat and Swannanoa are gone. Neighborhoods are gone from flooding or mudslides. They’re having to leave bodies behind, houses are on fire. There’s no communication so people that need to be rescued can’t call for help so they have no idea where to look. The flood current is so strong and they weren’t able to save some people that were in their cars. No one even knows this is going on right now because of having no communication. We’ve been watching the news since we woke up this morning and it hasn’t even been mentioned. So many prayers are needed. My heart is so heavy.”

Area news & info:

North Carolina's Weather Authority (Facebook)

NC Emergency Management Facebook page

Asheville Citizen-Times

Brad Panovich (Chief Meteorologist, WCNC Charlotte, Twitter)

Donations:

(Updated 9/28/24 at 8:20pm Eastern)

Blue Ridge Public Radio has a list of ways to help.

The American Red Cross

They've opened at least 15 shelters, and are the best positioned organization to help the entire region. Make a donation (money or blood, or volunteer) if you can, and please reblog this post.

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"Pro-Life" abuses women. Medical care is too complicated for simple-minded prohibitions.

Source

“Pro-life”

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Friday, September 13 , as of 4:30 PM-- A STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DUE TO EXTREME FIRE RISK. LARGE WILDFIRES ARE OUT OF CONTROL TO THE SOUTHWEST, THE EAST AND THE NORTH OF THE CITY. EXTREME HEAT AND DROUGHT ARE AGGRAVATING THESE CONDITIONS. DAMAGE IS HIGH AND HUNDREDS OF HOMES COULD BE AFFECTED. A LARGE APARTMENT FIRE IN CHINATOWN HAS ALSO DONE SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THAT COMMUNITY. EVACUATION WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR AFFECTED AREAS, AFFECTING THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS.

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“Imagine a world where the untamed power of nature is harnessed not for destruction, but for the betterment of humanity.”

- Nikola Tesla

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We need hippies more than ever

The fact is that lot of the old hippies who lived those days have passed away. Time is strongest than ideas, world is changing in a bad direction and they are turning into past shadows...

But we still preaching their ideas. Trying to enhace them ..

Someday will be usefull to the world..

I hope..

To our future.

A psychedelic legacy

Peace,love and wisdom ☮️❤️✌️

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Don’t Know Racism.

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