1. We should always take polls with a grain of salt, but a new Washington Post poll definitely worth taking a look at. It says 47% of respondents already blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, while only 30% blame Democrats.
2. A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that 90% of Americans want the Epstein files released in some fashion.
3.California has fully activated its first solar-covered canal system, Project Nexus. The panels generate clean electricity while helping to conserve water in the Central Valley.
4. 25,000 volunteer drivers used a DoorDash-like app called Food Rescue Hero to find donations of food that was perhaps not saleable for aesthetic
reasons, or was nearing its sell-by date, or had arrived as part of a shipping
or ordering mistake.
They have saved 250 million pounds of food since founding.
“We were founded on the principle that people are wired for good,”
says Food Rescue Hero CEO Alyssa Cholodofsky, “and our Food Rescue Hero community has validated that belief many times over.”