I'm starting up a Food Rescue program in my town.

The idea is that restaurants and stores throw away good food every night. Food rescue (also known as "gleaning") is where a person (Food Rescue Hero or Gleaner) goes to stores/restaurants and takes the good food that would otherwise be thrown out and provides it to hungry folks (either distributed centrally through a food pantry, decentrally through a free fridge / community pantry, or peer-to-peer directly to a person or family).

I'm currently researching tracking and coordination apps (such as foodrescue.us and others) but in the process of doing this I found myself at a local donut shop asking if they had 5-gallon food safe buckets that they could give away for hydroponics (i had received a tip!). They said they did and we started talking about food rescue. They said they had tried to donate their unsold donuts to a couple of pantries but no one could ever pick them up. I told them I would.

...and look what they provided!!!

My first food rescue, y'all!!!

3 dozen donuts!

I ran them straight to the free fridge! They can do this every night!!!

So cheers to Freddy Donuts in Fredericksburg, Virginia!

#foodRescue #freeFridge #communityPantry #foodSecurity #mutualAid #solarPunk

CNN runs a piece on scammy political fundraising texts; highlighting how these operations target vulnerable seniors who are less tech savvy & some of whom have dementia.

Good.

But the first sentence of the introduction reads "Republican and Democratic political campaigns and groups".

"most often to Republican candidates" is only stated further down; where "most often" is a factor of several.

The asymmetry is unsurprising given demography. CNN did not need to bury it.

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/