Avocado and Sauerkraut Open Sandwich – Tanooki Homemade Cafe

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FBI Announces Results of Nationwide Sex Trafficking Operation | OPA | Department of Justice

The FBI, working with its state and local partners during two weeks in August, identified and located 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation offenses and located 37 actively missing children during a nationwide enforcement campaign, dubbed “Operation Cross Country.”

In addition to the identification and location of adolescent victims, the FBI and its partners located 141 adult victims of human trafficking. Agents and investigators also identified or arrested 85 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking offenses. Those suspects identified will be subject to additional investigation for potential chargers. The average age of victims located in similar operations is approximately 15.5 years old, while the youngest victim discovered during this operation was 11 years old.

“The success of Operation Cross County reinforces what NCMEC sees every day. Children are being bought and sold for sex in communities across the country by traffickers, gangs and even family members,” said Michelle DeLaune, President and CEO National Center for Missing & Exploited Children “We’re proud to support the FBI’s efforts to prioritize the safety of children.  This national operation highlights the need for all child serving professionals to continue to focus on the wellbeing of children and youth to prevent them being targeted in the first place.”

Source: FBI Announces Results of Nationwide Sex Trafficking Operation | OPA | Department of Justice

The Arizona Republican Party’s Anti-Democracy Experiment – The New York Times

The aggressive takeover of the Arizona G.O.P. by its far-right wing was made manifest on primary night earlier this month, when a slate of Trump-endorsed candidates — the gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, the U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, the state attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh and the secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem — all prevailed. As a group, they maintain that the 2020 election was stolen, have promoted conspiracy theories about Covid and have vowed to protect Arizona’s schools from gender ideology, critical race theory and what McCarthyites denounced 70 years ago as “godless communism.” They have cast the 2022 election as not just history-defining but potentially civilization-ending. As Lake told a large crowd in downtown Phoenix the night before the primary: “It is not just a battle between Republicans and Democrats. This is a battle between freedom and tyranny, between authoritarianism and liberty and between good and evil.” A week later, in response to the F.B.I.’s executing a search warrant at Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Lake posted a statement on Twitter: “These tyrants will stop at nothing to silence the Patriots who are working hard to save America.” She added, “America — dark days lie ahead for us.” Far from offering an outlier’s view, Lake was articulating the dire stance shared by numerous other Republicans on the primary ballot and by the reactionary grass-roots activists who have swept them into power.

Whether that viewpoint is politically viable in a swing state is another question.

Inaccurate maps are delaying the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s broadband funding | Engadget (Me: arrgh!!! Speed up!)

Following a contractor dispute, the FCC will publish its latest maps sometime in mid-November. Once they’re available, both consumers and companies will a chance to challenge the agency’s data. As a result of that extra step, funding from the broadband plan likely won’t begin making its way to ISPs until the end of 2023, according to one analyst The Journal interviewed.

 

“We understand the urgency of getting broadband out there to everyone quickly,” Alan Davidson, the head of the Commerce Department unit responsible for allocating the funding, told the Journal. “We also know that we get one shot at this and we want to make sure we do it right.”

 

Source: Inaccurate maps are delaying the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s broadband funding | Engadget

♫ Fortunate Son ♫

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Well, it seems I forgot to do a music post last night.  I woke this morning with a vague sense of something not quite right, something I was supposed to do, but it was almost 11:00 before it hit me that what I had forgotten was a music post!  I truly think senility is setting in!  Anyway, I had CCR in my mind, so I went in search of one I hadn’t played for a while that I could get on the schedule in under an hour, and this one jumped up and said, “Me … Me … Pick ME!!!!”  And so, I give youFortunate Son”!


The song was released in 1969, at the height of the war in Vietnam and the stateside protests against our role in it.  It soon became an anti-war movement anthem; an expressive symbol of the counterculture’s opposition to U.S. military involvement in the…

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Alexey Navalny moved to solitary confinement — Meduza

It’s only 3 days so far, but in the middle of September I have a visit from my relatives, which I am supposed to have once every 4 months. No visits are allowed to those in the SHU, so they say that unless I “reconsider my attitude”, it will become my permanent residence.

Source: Alexey Navalny moved to solitary confinement — Meduza

Jolly Monday — Food, Fun, and QUOKKAS!!!

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Good Monday morning, dear friends!  Are you ready to face the week head-on, to meet all those challenges that are out there just waiting for you?  Yeah … me too … let’s all just go back to bed.  But, since we can’t do that, let’s have a little snack and some fun stuff to fortify us for the week ahead, shall we?  Joyful has been working in the kitchen for a while now, so let’s go see what she’s got for us …

    


You might remember that I love quokkas, those cute little critters that are mostly found in Australia.  I came across some fun quokka memes and pictures that brought a smile to my face and I thought you might enjoy them, too!



I found some funny ‘toons for you guys … I hope you like ’em …


Here are a few things to jog your…

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