Notes today:

• U.S. hiring dropped abruptly in August with the smallest jobs gain in seven months, complicating any decision by the Fed to begin scaling back monetary support by the end of the year. 

• Hurricane Ida knocked out at least a tenth of U.S. grain export capacity, and in the process wiped away optimism that corn and soy prices would rise. 

• Lyft and Uber vowed to pay legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas’s new insane abortion law. Meanwhile, Republicans in as many as six states are falling all over themselves to follow the lead of Texas in adopting this extreme bs. 

• ‘You’repoisoning us’: Ida brings fresh hell for Cancer Alley residents already battling pollution.

• The Florida Department of Health has issued a notice indicating it will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools, and government agencies that require Floridians to show proof of COVID

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  Oklahoma hospitals deluged by ivermectin overdoses, doctor says. “Some people taking inappropriate doses have actually put themselves in worse conditions than if they’d caught Covid. The scariest one that I’ve heard of and seen is people coming in with vision loss.