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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Track of the Day
Mexican Whip-poor-will, Chloride Creek (Gila NF 226), Sierra, New Mexico, United States.
Politics
“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Biden Administration
“White Home Says COVID Testing Protocols Nonetheless in Place After Israeli Delegation Members Take a look at Optimistic” [C-SPAN]. Karine Jean-Pierre: “As you already know, we’ve testing protocols any time someone meet with the President.”
They know. They simply don’t need you to know. Their lives and well being matter. Yours don’t. It couldn’t be extra clear.
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
* * * “Why is Joe Biden so unpopular?” [Yahoo News]. “At this level in his time period — about 910 days in — Joe Biden is the second-most-unpopular president in fashionable U.S. historical past. As of July 18, Biden’s common job-approval score, in accordance with the ballot aggregators at FiveThirtyEight, is a paltry 39.1%; his common disapproval score is 55.4%. Meaning his ‘internet approval score’ is -16.3%, which is properly ‘underwater,’ as pollsters prefer to say. Adverse 16.3% can also be actually unhealthy traditionally talking. Actually, the one president with weaker numbers than Biden was Jimmy Carter, who hit -28.6% on day 910…. Up to now, a president’s standing has tended to enhance together with situations within the nation. But Biden’s numbers haven’t budged; since September 2022, his approval score has remained mired round 40% whereas his disapproval score has by no means damaged out of the low to mid-50s. The query is why. Is it one thing systemic — the best way People are more and more caught in their very own partisan media bubbles and unwilling to provide presidents of the opposing occasion any credit score? Is it the economic system — the best way sure indicators (comparable to actual wages and the price of companies) have but to completely get better whilst the general image brightens? Or is it Biden himself — his superior age, his frequent gaffes, his ongoing household drama? And might the president flip issues round in time for the 2024 election?” • As a result of Joe Biden owes me 600 bucks.
* * * “‘Right here to assist’: Pete Buttigieg, federal officers survey Vermont’s flood injury” [VT Digger]. • Subsequent, East Palestine?
“Newsom’s psychological well being plan would take $700 million away from companies, redirect cash to housing homeless” [FOX]. • Taking cash away from the NGOs, and giving it to the development unions?
* * * “If not DeSantis, who? 5 options to Trump for the GOP nomination” [The Hill]. • Scott, Haley, Ramaswamy, Christie, Not one of the above (Youngkin, Kemp, Pence). “Trump must be buoyed by the shortage of anyone one that is absolutely endangering his march towards the nomination.”
“Tim Scott-boosting tremendous PAC drops $40 million in fall advert reservations”” [Politico]. “An excellent PAC aligned with Sen. Tim Scott is dropping $40 million in fall advert reservations, the most important purchase of the presidential race thus far… The brand new tv and digital ads are set to begin operating Sept. 7 — simply after the tremendous PAC’s $7 million summer season advert marketing campaign winds down — and can undergo January. The tv adverts will run within the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — in addition to on nationwide cable networks — simply as the first debate season is underway. Scott stays locked in a slow-moving struggle with a handful of different candidates for the No. 3 spot within the GOP major. He’s below strain to spice up his identify recognition with voters to advance within the polls.”
“Youngkin administration halts trainer range grants legislators had funded” [Daily Progress]. “The Virginia Division of Schooling below the Youngkin administration halted the dissemination of grants meant to assist provisionally licensed academics of shade obtain their full educating license, regardless of funding from the state legislature…. The administration has additionally made some extent to roll again range efforts. One month after his inauguration, Youngkin’s new training division scrapped dozens of assets for colleges on the division’s web site aimed toward selling range and fairness, calling them divisive and at instances discriminatory. Virginia’s chief range official, Martin Brown, slammed range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at a Virginia Army Institute occasion in April and stated ‘DEI is lifeless.’” • Youngkin quietly getting bins checked, with this and in addition with the subsequent–
“Virginia Division of Schooling Releases Mannequin Insurance policies to Guarantee Privateness, Dignity, and Respect for All College students and Mother and father in Virginia’s Public Faculties” [Virginia Department of Education]. “After the 2021 Mannequin Insurance policies purposefully stored dad and mom at nighttime about their baby’s well being and wellbeing in school, the 2023 Mannequin Insurance policies restore parental rights in choice making about their baby’s identification whereas defending the security and dignity of all college students.”
* * * “Barack Obama, in TikTok starring Kankakee Public Library staffers, launches drive towards guide bans” [Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times]. “E book bans are brewing as a problem that might energize voters — on the left and proper — from native contests for library and faculty boards to the White Home — heading into the 2024 election cycle. Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah and South Carolina — all purple states — are the place guide bans are commonest. Blue Illinois in June grew to become the primary state within the nation to guard libraries from, in accordance with the laws, ‘makes an attempt to ban, take away or in any other case prohibit entry to books or different supplies.’ The brand new legislation, pushed by Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and — each Democrats forward of the curve on this — got here because the Chicago-based American Library Affiliation stated that in 2022 in Illinois, there have been 67 makes an attempt to ban books.’” • Hmm.
Good for Williamson, particularly since Jayapal simply bought kneecapped for a a lot milder assertion:
NEWS: @marwilliamson, a Democratic presidential candidate, criticizes Israel’s govt.
“As a Jew and as a lover of Israel…we have to be sincere. The occupation is prohibited. The settlements are unlawful. The blockade of Gaza is a horrible injustice.”
Says @JoeBiden is “palms off” pic.twitter.com/JYdSPZjvnQ
— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) July 19, 2023
2020 Publish Mortem
“Michigan Lawyer Common Dana Nessel Prices 16 ‘False Electors’ with Election Regulation and Forgery Felonies” (press launch) [Michigan Department of Attorney General]. July 18:
These defendants are alleged to have met covertly within the basement of the Michigan Republican Occasion headquarters on December 14th, and signed their names to a number of certificates stating they had been the “duly elected and certified electors for President and Vice President of america of America for the State of Michigan.” These false paperwork had been then transmitted to america Senate and Nationwide Archives in a coordinated effort to award the state’s electoral votes to the candidate of their selecting, rather than the candidates truly elected by the folks of Michigan.
“The proof will show there was no authorized authority for the false electors to purport to behave as ‘duly elected presidential electors’ and execute the false electoral paperwork,” Nessel continued. “Each severe problem to the election had been denied, dismissed, or in any other case rejected by the point the false electors convened. There was no respectable authorized avenue or believable use of such a doc or another slate of electors. There was solely the determined effort of those defendants, who we’ve charged with intentionally trying to intervene with and overturn our free and honest election course of, and together with it, the need of thousands and thousands of Michigan voters. That the trouble failed and democracy prevailed doesn’t erase the crimes of those that enacted the false electors plot.”
I must perceive the precise case higher. The very first thing that strikes me is the age of the defendants: 55, 55, 56, 64, 65, 68, 69, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 81, and 82. This New Yorker puff-piece, in an unrelated incident, appeared July 17–
“How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold” [Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker]. “She endured an armed mob on the state capitol and a plot by a bunch linked to a right-wing militia to kidnap and kill her. Final November, Whitmer tied her candidacy to a state constitutional modification guaranteeing the fitting to abortion and received reëlection by ten factors, sweeping the suburbs so convincingly that the Democrats gained management of each homes of the Michigan legislature for the primary time in forty years. Since then, Whitmer’s Democratic majority has allotted greater than a billion {dollars} to help the auto trade’s inexperienced transition; quintupled a tax credit score for poor households; repealed a legislation that made Michigan a right-to-work state; and enacted new protections for L.G.B.T.Q. folks. After a forty-three-year-old native man went on a taking pictures spree at Michigan State College, in February, killing three college students, some modest, if hard-won, gun-control measures had been put in place.” • About that “plot by a bunch linked to a right-wing militia to kidnap and kill her”: “We Shouldn’t Belief the FBI’s Narrative on the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Scheme,” and “The FBI Allegedly Used At Least 12 Informants In The Michigan Kidnapping Case.” Superb, or not, that Wallace-Wells erases that half (if certainly the erasure was his). So the spooks and the press love Whitmer. Good, proper?
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, plainly persons are truly studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are various updates. So I must do this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Occasion (“the Democrat Occasion is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated publish, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Occasion is, in truth, a tough drawback. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Occasion is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Occasion didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working elements of the Occasion reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Occasion (ka-ching, however not solely) these components comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.
Be aware, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
* * * “A brand new technique to tackle AIPAC: Really take them on” [Ryan Grim]. “However contra the chilling impact AIPAC could also be having nationwide, one challenger to an incumbent Democrat in Houston is taking the polar reverse strategy. Pervez Agwan is operating towards the AIPAC-endorsed Rep. Lizzie Fletcher as an ‘unapologetically progressive Dem’ and criticizing Fletcher for taking cash from AIPAC, hoping to show any impending spending towards him right into a weak spot for Fletcher. ‘To take cash from a lobbying group that dictates your overseas coverage, I believe it’s fully unacceptable,’ Agwan informed The Intercept in an interview. ‘I don’t suppose it’s OK to take cash from a bunch that overtly retains an apartheid system and an open-air jail the place folks’s rights are violated.’”
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Search for the Helpers
By way of MN, “tremendous cool citizen science covid knowledge effort”:
I’ve been requested whether or not the latest Covid Wastewater Surveillance knowledge from Wales might be mixed with the historic ONS Covid An infection Survey knowledge with a purpose to estimate the present variety of England Covid instances.
I made a decision to place it to the check…
— Cat within the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 (@_CatintheHat) July 18, 2023
The entire thread is value a learn to see what they do; Iowa COVID-19 Tracker (above) has an analogous strategy and degree of effort.
Censorship and Propaganda
I stay agnostic over whether or not “Proximal Origins” is how “science” is completed at a excessive degree, no matter subject. What does appear clear is that Science‘s reporting on the matter — which, to be honest, would concerned Science protecting itself, and the press is rarely a part of the story – was sub-optimal from a public well being perspective:
Nevertheless, to repeat what I stated earlier at present, Covid has proven how typically folks concentrate on what they will see; I do it too. On this case, what folks can see is Anderson, Fauci, Collins, et al. In order that’s the place the story goes. What folks don’t see is, because it had been, the unfavourable house, which constructions every little thing, as unfavourable house will do: The unnamed “higher-ups,” and “intel” (the latter seemingly concerned from leap). Hopefully we’ll get a bit extra perception into the unseeable, and the unsayable, because the story rumbles on.
Sequelae
“The Challenges of Defining, Understanding, and Addressing Lengthy COVID” [Pfizer (!!)]. “7 Hypotheses on Lengthy COVID’s Trigger… 1. Viral Persistence; 2. Immune Dysregulation; 3. Latent virus reactivation; 4. Autoimmunity; 5. Microclots; 6. Dysfunctional Neurological Signaling; 7. Disruption of the Microbiome.” And: “After fastidiously contemplating each, [Magdia De Jesus, PhD, Director of Scientific Strategy and Portfolio Lead in Pfizer’s Worldwide Medical and Safety Division] flags the 2 hypotheses that scientists appear to be addressing first: Viral Persistence and Immune Dysregulation, which have a number of ongoing medical trials. Though the opposite hypotheses are being addressed, scientists are taking a stepwise strategy to their analysis due to lengthy COVID’s complexity.” • Excellent news, Lengthy Covid is legit. Dangerous information, Pfizer did the legitimating. Commentary:
Absolutely agree, however with such affect over the US authorities, at the very least the precise mechanisms of LC cannot be ignored.
— Conor Browne (@brownecfm) July 18, 2023
Prevention
“Professor believes nasal spray invention prevented him getting Covid” [News.com]. “The spray’s key ingredient is the drug heparin, which is an anticoagulant — or blood thinner — that stops your blood from forming clots or making them greater, in accordance with the Cleveland Clinic…. In keeping with Prof [Don] Campbell, well being consultants have recognized for 20 years the drug may be used to dam the proliferation of influenza in laboratory cultures. He thought an analogous idea may work for blocking Covid…. After a number of unsuccessful makes an attempt at securing funding, the researchers had been lastly capable of safe $4.2 million from the Andrews authorities… The Murdoch Youngsters’s Analysis Institute, College of Melbourne, Monash College and The Northern Hospital are in search of 400 households to trial the answer — however this has been a problem…. Prof Campbell reassured using heparin is protected given it’s the second most generally used drug on the planet that’s been used as an intravenous anticoagulant for eight a long time. ‘Should you’ve been utilizing one thing for 80 years, and it’s the second most generally used drug on Earth, we all know all about it,’ he stated.” • Hmm.
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” may be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, probably deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we’d add mind injury, together with persona modifications therefrom.
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Case Information
NOT UPDATED From BioBot wastewater knowledge, July 17:
Lambert right here: A definite upward development. Not seeing the upward slope of doubling conduct, however we are actually — simply scan the chart backward — at a degree above each earlier valley.
Regional knowledge:
Apparently, the upswing begins earlier than July 4, which neither accelerates nor retards it.
Regional variant knowledge:
No matter the reason for the uptick within the Northeast, it’s not EG.5 (the orange pie slice), which appears evenly distributed.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, July 8:
Lambert right here: EG.5 shifting like a bat out of hell, exhibiting unactionable nature (uselessness) of those CDC two-week-lag charts (right here, and in positivity, too). They’re not even performative!
From CDC, June 24:
Lambert right here: Undecided what to make of this. I’m used to seeing a brand new variant take down the beforehand dominant variant. Right here it appears to be like like we’ve a “tag crew,” all working collectively to chop XBB.1.5 all the way down to measurement. I certain hope the volunteers doing Pangolin, on which this chart relies upon, don’t all transfer on the inexperienced fields and pastures new (or have their entry to services lower by directors of ailing intent).
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance knowledge will probably be reported biweekly, primarily based on the supply of optimistic check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice every week; semiweekly.” Seems to be like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, July 15:
Lambert right here: Discover the slight improve.
NOTE “Charts and knowledge supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is acceptable for eachMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, at the very least for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, despite the fact that CDC is making an attempt to get us to consider that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections.
Positivity
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, July 17:
1.1%. Going up, although absolutely the numbers are nonetheless very small relative to June 2022, say. Apparently, these don’t correlate with the regional figures for wastewater. (It might be fascinating to survey this inhabitants usually; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and massive peer strain, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From CDC, June 26:
Lambert right here: That is the CDC’s “Traveler-Based mostly Genomic Surveillance” knowledge. They are saying “maps,” however I don’t see one….
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, July 12:
Lambert right here: The WHO knowledge is nugatory, so I changed it with the Iowa Covid Information Tracker. Their methodology: “These knowledge have been sourced, by way of the API from the CDC: https://knowledge.cdc.gov/NCHS/Situations-Contributing-to-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Stat/hk9y-quqm. This visualization updates on Wednesday evenings. Information are provisional and are adjusted weekly by the CDC.” I can’t appear to get a pop-up that reveals a complete of the three causes (prime proper). Readers?
Whole: 1,168,944 – 1,168,9141,168,414 = 30 (30 * 365 = 10950 deaths per yr, at present’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would really like, although they will speak themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I may must determine that is what the powers-that-be think about “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of dying and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, July 19:
Lambert right here: That is now being up to date each day. Odd. Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran eternally with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no person was actually taking a look at it, so I bought rid it. )
Stats Watch
There are not any official statistics of curiosity at present.
The Bezzle: “Nasdaq pauses crypto custody plans citing the ‘shifting’ regulatory local weather” [CNBC]. “Nasdaq is pausing its plans to launch a crypto custody enterprise, CEO Adena Friedman stated on the corporate’s earnings name Wednesday. ‘Contemplating the shifting enterprise and regulatory surroundings within the US, we’ve made the choice to halt our launch of the U.S. digital property custodian enterprise and our associated efforts to pursue a related license,’ she stated. ‘Nevertheless, we proceed to construct and ship expertise capabilities that place Nasdaq as a number one digital asset software program options supplier to the broader international trade.’ Nasdaq nonetheless offers the corporate itemizing for Coinbase and filed the paperwork for latest bitcoin ETF purposes from BlackRock and others.”
At this time’s Worry & Greed Index: 84 Excessive Greed (earlier shut: 82 Excessive Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 80 (Excessive Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jul 19 at 1:31 PM ET.
The Conservatory
“The place Johnny Money Got here From” [Humanities]. “Money’s roots had been humble. He grew up on government-granted land within the Arkansas Delta, and that hardscrabble world of poor farmers helped outline his musical profession. Throughout his early years as a musician, he carried out for small audiences just like the Merigold Excessive Faculty junior class in Merigold, Mississippi, a Delta city with a inhabitants of 664. In 1955, the category deliberate a fund-raiser to help their journey to Washington and invited Elvis Presley to carry out on the occasion. Their classmate Larry Speakes—who later served as White Home press secretary throughout the Ronald Reagan administration—and his band had lately performed on the identical stage with Elvis at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis, the place he met Bob Neal, Presley’s supervisor on the time. Speakes phoned Neal, who informed him that Presley’s charge to do the present could be $85, which Speakes stated they may not afford. Neal then supplied to ship each Johnny Money and Carl Perkins for $35, and Speakes readily accepted. The legendary live performance was within the college gymnasium, which was constructed by the New Deal Works Progress Administration in 1938. It drew a sellout viewers of 400, and tickets bought for 60 cents every.” • Musical interlude:
The Gallery
Shot:
Born on at the present time in 1834, in Paris, Edgar Degas. Painter, sculptor, & printmaker with an excellent eye and intelligence. Right here by himself in 1862. Fairly the dandy! pic.twitter.com/BYTJ8dRFgi
— Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) July 19, 2023
Chaser:
2/2 Degas together with his pal Evariste de Valernes in 1865. At this time is Degas’ day. pic.twitter.com/rAG4Yd4Zf6
— Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) July 19, 2023
The second portrait, to me, is the one that solely Degas may have painted. Not a gray space in any respect…
Zeitgeist Watch
Pool report:
I like dwelling in a society the place speedy aerial surveillance of little youngsters swimming is possible however holding a pool open throughout a warmth wave shouldn’t be https://t.co/FKg9TrIWNk
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) July 18, 2023
“Skater Women Are Having All The Enjoyable” [Byline]. “After I was 6 years outdated, there was nothing I needed greater than to be a skater boy. I beloved each a part of the skateboarding tradition, from the busted boards and sticker-covered helmets to the 00s punk music that blared from boomboxes on the skatepark and the ever-present bottles of Mountain Dew and Monster. My dream by no means actually got here true. Positive, I discovered methods to stand up on a board and push off, and I managed to steer myself cautiously across the flat elements of the park whereas my older brother yelled, “Sooner! You need to go sooner!” However I by no means skated the best way I noticed all of the older boys skating—plunging into the bowl, grinding rails, rushing down the sidewalk, and wiping out spectacularly after a wheel ran over an unseen pebble.” • Since “wiping out spectacularly” includes crashing into impermeable surfaces like concrete, the entire enterprise strikes me as simply as nutty as, say, skiiing. Then once more, I lived in Philly of Love Park fame, the entire enterprise strikes me as innocent, and truly moderately candy. After which once more: “‘I used to be skating alone always and needed girls to affix, not solely due to the fixed undesirable male consideration you get as a girl on a skateboard however as a result of it was one thing I beloved so deeply and wished I may share with different girls,’ Osinski informed Amadeus Journal. ‘Because of my fortunate stars, after just a few months of recruiting random girls for group skates, I lastly met essentially the most magical girls who all beloved skating and needed to create a motion of empowering girls via skate simply as a lot as I did.’” • So maybe not so candy. Nonetheless, “empowering girls” via skateboarding? Some, I suppose….
Information of the Wired
“Welcome to BookWyrm” [BookWyrm]. “BookWyrm is a social community for monitoring your studying, speaking about books, writing opinions, and discovering what to learn subsequent. Federation permits BookWyrm customers to affix small, trusted communities that may join with each other, and with different ActivityPub companies like Mastodon and Pleroma.” • Fascinating?
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