By way of Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Chicken Music of the Time
Fulvous-faced Scrub-Tyrant, Hacienda Limon, Cajamarca, Peru. “Songs near dawn from a bird moving low and hidden in dense roadside dry scrub.” I do know this isn’t a scrub robin, however who may withstand a “Fulvous-faced Scrub-Tyrant”?!
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In Case You Would possibly Leave out…
(2) Antisemitism Consciousness Occupation challenged via professors
(1) Trump’s Bragg trial rolls on.
(3) Cheese sauce trick
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Politics
“So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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Biden Management
“Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation” [The Hill]. “A group of nearly 700 Jewish college faculty signed a letter to President Biden on Wednesday encouraging him not to back the controversial Antisemitism Awareness Act. The academics took issue with the act’s use of the International Holocaust Awareness Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has raised concerns that legitimate criticisms of the state of Israel could be seen as antisemitic under the bill. The bill easily passed the House last week, though 21 Republicans and 70 Democrats voted against it, with many voicing the same concerns as the faculty. ‘Criticism of the state of Israel, the Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or Zionist ideology is not — in and of itself — antisemitic,’ the letter to Biden and Senate leaders reads. ‘We accordingly urge our political leaders to reject any effort to codify into federal law a definition of antisemitism that conflates antisemitism with criticism of the state of Israel, it continues. By using the IHRA definition in federal law, the letter claims, the bill could ;delegitimize and silence Jewish Americans — among others — who advocate for Palestinian human rights or otherwise criticize Israeli policies.’” • I supposition we’ll see what the Israel Foyer thinks, however just right for them.
2024
Lower than a time to progress!
RCP Ballot Averages, Would possibly 3:
Nationwide effects now shifting Trump’s method. However one of the most Swing States (extra right here) at the moment are shifting Biden’s method, together with Michigan and Wisconsin, which is not any suspicion why Trump visited them on his while off. Pennsylvania, OTOH, simply inclined to Trump. In fact, it is going with out announcing that those are all situation polls, subsequently sinister. Now, if both candidate begins enter the issues, in lieu of tenths of some degree….
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “NY vs. Trump: DA Bragg’s web of deceit starts to unravel” [FOX]. “Back on the stand Thursday was the Beverly Hills attorney who negotiated payments for two women who demanded exorbitant cash from Trump in exchange for their silence about purported affairs. But the witness, Keith Davidson, admitted he had no contact whatsoever with the defendant and never met him. He dealt exclusively with Trump’s ex-lawyer, Cohen, who appeared to be acting entirely on his own. Nothing in his testimony involved crimes allegedly committed by Trump…. If Bragg thought that Davidson would be a stellar witness for the prosecution, it may have backfired. He refused to call the Stormy Daniels payment “hush money or a payoff” presen insisting that its right kind definition is “consideration.” That could be a fancy criminal time period in promise legislation that merely method an alternate of advantages. Right here, it used to be reimbursement in go back for a non-disclosure pledge. Reserving it as a criminal expense would, subsequently, be glaringly right kind.”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan) “Trump hush money trial live updates: Stormy Daniels concludes testimony” [Associated Press]. “Daniels testified that she never spoke with Trump about the $130,000 hush money payment she received from Cohen and had no knowledge of whether Trump was aware of or involved in the transaction. ‘You have no personal knowledge about his involvement in that transaction or what he did or didn’t do?’ Trump lawyer Susan Necheles asked. ‘Not directly, no,’ Daniels responded. Upon further questioning, Daniels noted that she didn’t negotiate directly with Cohen, either, but that her lawyer at the time, Keith Davidson did. Necheles used the questions in the final moments of her cross-examination to underscore that Daniels had no knowledge of any of the allegations underlying Trump’s charges in the case, that he falsified his company’s records to hide the true nature of reimbursement payments to Cohen. Daniels said that she knew the charges involved business records, but when asked if she knew anything about Trump’s business records, she acknowledged: ‘I know nothing about his business records. No. Why would I?’”
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Questions about Trump’s hush money criminal trial, answered” [The Hill]. “Question: Why do you and others who publish about it keep calling this a “hush money” trial when it’s in point of fact about election interference? May just that many population be seeking to produce it tone much less severe than it’s, or do information shops have mini imaginations and vocabularies? Solution: Hello that is Zach, I’ve tended to please see this situation because the “hush money case” in headlines and the start of reports as a result of after I’ve heard from readers (in addition to when pals inquire from me about it), that’s the identify they understand it via. After I say “election interference” case, population most often suppose I’m speaking about Trump’s indictments in D.C. or Georgia. That being mentioned, as you allude to, Big apple District Lawyer Alvin Bragg (D) in contemporary months has attempted to shift the narrative to election interference. A few of that appears to be a realization that Trump’s alternative legal circumstances are not likely to progress to trial sooner than the election, so Bragg’s case is now leaping out in entrance. However Trump, not like in the ones alternative circumstances, isn’t if truth be told charged with any election legislation violations right here. So we’ve saved with “hush money” to significance as shorthand in headlines and upcoming give an explanation for Bragg’s “election interference” narrative all through our tales.” • As I display right here, Pass judgement on Merchan took the Nationwide Enquirer’s Trump-friendly “catch and release” program off the desk as an object offense (this is, as an backup exchange that converts the industry information misdemeanors into felonies, of they have been dedicated in carrier of that rate). And that’s the one a part of the case {that a} dark standard would construe as election interference, or even upcoming it’s a stretch.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Stormy Daniels’ Turn as a Witness Brings Home What This Trial Is About” [Salon]. And the deck: “Imagine if this story had come out right after the Access Hollywood tape.” Thankfully, we don’t convict defendants at the foundation of imagined occasions. One revealing passage: “‘It’s fucking insane what the jury heard this morning,’ said one journalist upon return after lunch. What they heard was a full account of Trump’s encounter with Daniels that laid out in precise detail every aspect of the meeting.” Which I received’t excerpt. Extra: “From this point on, Merchan kept a much tighter leash on the direct examination, which had strayed way beyond what the judge said he had intended.” • Oh. So Merchan can’t keep an eye on his personal courtroom? In point of fact?
Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Judge Cannon Just Put Final Nail in the Coffin of Classified Docs Case” [The New Republic]. That’s a rattling humiliation. Extra: “Cannon says the case should be not on time as a result of the selection of pretrial motions that stay unresolved. There’s only one sickness with that justification: The motions stay unresolved as a result of she has didn’t unravel them. Cannon has dragged her ft and given concessions to Trump’s criminal workforce at reputedly each alternative to this point. The fresh choice implies that Trump is all however positive to steer clear of trial within the categorised paperwork case till next the November election. If he wins, he may instruct the Section of Justice to reduce the case altogether and even struggle to preemptively oblivion himself. Cannon has poised two hearings for Would possibly 22 on Trump’s motions to push aside the trial totally.
Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Trump Judge Indefinitely Postpones Documents Case Trial” [Bloomberg]. “The case has been bogged down for months and the trial date was expected to be moved as the two sides battled over pre-trial motions and Cannon held off issuing rulings that would be necessary before a jury could be impaneled. Cannon has come under intense criticism for failing to make timely decisions and for issuing rulings that favor Trump, increasing speculation that she never intended to move the case to trial this year.”
Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Democrats cry foul over Judge Cannon’s handling of Trump documents case” [The Hill]. “The decision sparked outrage among Senate Democrats, who say Cannon has encumbered the trial by unnecessarily raising complex problems of law.” • Oh, the humanity!
Trump (R): “The DOJ’s Doctored Crime Scene Photo of Mar-a-Lago Raid” [Julie Kelly, Declassified]. “A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged contraband seized from Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate that day; the image showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to files purportedly discovered in Trump’s private office. Included as a government exhibit to oppose Trump’s lawsuit requesting a special master to vet the 13,000 items taken from his residence, the crime scene pic immediately went viral—just as Attorney General Merrick Garland, who authorized the unprecedented raid, intended.” However because it seems: “New court filings in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s espionage and obstruction case against Trump and two co-defendants conclusively demonstrate that the government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case. Jay Bratt, who was the lead DOJ prosecutor on the investigation at the time and now is assigned to Smith’s team, described the photo this way in his August 30, 2022 response to Trump’s special master lawsuit: ‘[Thirteen] boxes or containers contained documents with classification markings, and in all, over one hundred unique documents with classification markings…were seized. Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status. (Emphasis added.) See, e.g., Attachment F (redacted FBI photograph of certain documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container in the ‘45 office’).’ The DOJ’s clever wordsmithing, however, did not accurately describe the origin of the cover sheets. In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo. Classified cover sheets were not ‘recovered’ in the container, contrary to Bratt’s declaration to the court…. [B]efore the official cover sheets were used as placeholder, agents apparently used them as props. FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip the sheets to documents—something evident given the uniform nature of how each cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photo—laid them on the floor, and snapped a picture for political posterity.” And it will get worse: “But Jack Smith might have bigger problems. During the raid, agents took a box in its entirety if it contained papers with classified markings; the box usually contained other items, which is how the FBI ended up with so many of Trump’s personal belongings. So, in order to flag the location of the alleged classified record in the box, agents, as Bratt noted, used the cover sheets as placeholders. (The classified records were then placed in a separate secure file.) But now defense attorneys claim, and the special counsel concedes, that some placeholders do not match the relevant document.”
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Trump (R): “Donald Trump to Attend Fundraiser on Day of Barron’s Graduation” [Newsweek]. “Donald Trump is scheduled to give the keynote address at the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on May 17, the same day he requested off in court to attend his son Barron Trump’s graduation ceremony. On April 30, Judge Merchan, who is presiding over the former president’s Stormy Daniels hush money case, announced the court wouldn’t sit on May 17, allowing Trump to attend the event. But the former president is also due to speak at the Minnesota GOP event on the same day, according to the KFGO radio station…. The graduation ceremony is due to start in the midmorning, according to fact-checking website PolitiFact. While it is unclear exactly how long it will last Trump, 77, who owns a private jet, may well be able to make it to the dinner and attend both events.” • that’s my Dad!
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Haley (R):
I voted within the Indiana number one nowadays.
Nikkie Haley took 22% of the Republican vote nowadays in Indiana and my spouse and I voted for her. Sure I do know she is now not operating…
I do know lots of you assume former President Trump will win in November; alternatively, I negative with you.
— Mike Sylvester, CPA (@MikeSyl36625988) Would possibly 8, 2024
For extra on IN, see under.
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Kennedy (I): “R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain” [New York Times]. “In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor….. Several doctors noticed a dark spot on the younger Mr. Kennedy’s brain scans and concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 deposition [he gave during divorce proceedings from his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy] reviewed by The New York Times. [Later, Kennedy] received a call from a doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: Mr. Kennedy, he believed, had a dead parasite in his head. The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans ‘was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,’ Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition…. Now an independent presidential candidate, the 70-year-old Mr. Kennedy has portrayed his athleticism and relative youth as an advantage over the two oldest people to ever seek the White House… He has gone to lengths to appear hale… A camera crew was at his side while he lifted weights, shirtless, at an outdoor gym in Venice Beach…. Still, over the years, he has faced serious health issues, some previously undisclosed, including the apparent parasite…. About the same time he learned of the parasite, he said, he was also diagnosed with mercury poisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious neurological issues…. ‘I have cognitive problems, clearly,’ he said in the 2012 deposition. ‘I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.’ In the interview with The Times [this winter’, he said he had recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite, which he said had not required treatment. Asked last week if any of Mr. Kennedy’s health issues could compromise his fitness for the presidency, Stefanie Spear, a spokeswoman for the Kennedy campaign, told The Times, ‘That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.’” • Statement:
I do business in to consume 5 extra mind worms and nonetheless beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Would possibly 8, 2024
2024 has been rather a time to this point, however I confess I didn’t have literal mind worms on my Bingo card. (Additionally, it sounds just like the trojan horse used to be smallish, and encysted itself, if that’s a word of honour; showed under. In alternative phrases, no longer severe, even supposing conducive to a headline. Actually, it nearly turns out as though it is a very subtle model of the prevalent Democrat trope that every one their warring parties are stupider than they’re.)
Kennedy (I): “You May Have a Brain Worm Like RFK JR. and Not Even Know it” [Day-to-day Beast]. “‘The bottom line is, no, this would not cause lasting effects on someone’s mental abilities,’ Dr. Philip Budge, M.D., PhD, a tropical diseases specialist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, told The Daily Beast. ‘The worm in question does not ‘eat’ brain, regardless of what he says his prior doctor said. Rather, it forms a cyst that displaces a small amount of brain. When the cyst dies there is some inflammation that can transiently affect brain function but should not cause long-term consequences.’… In an email on Wednesday, Kennedy campaign press secretary Stefanie Spear said Kennedy “traveled extensively in Africa, South America, and Asia in his work as an environmental advocate, and in one of those locations contracted a parasite. The issue was resolved more than 10 years ago, and he is in robust physical and mental health.” • I will see Trump making up a nickname for Kennedy in accordance with this; it will be form of superb if he took the prime highway and confirmed some compassion.
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Kennedy (I): Soliciting for my vote:
The condition in Ukraine is getting ready to fatal escalation. Do the army imperialists in Washington and their lackeys in Europe have any thought the chance they’re dating? They’re carrying out overseas coverage as though it have been a sport of “chicken”:
1. British International…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Would possibly 7, 2024
Kennedy (I): Cheeky (1):
BREAKING: Robert Kennedy Jr. has challenged Donald Trump to a debate on the Libertarian nationwide conference, as they each will already be attending.
Kennedy wrote on X in letter structure to Trump, “I’m thankful to you for calling consideration to the rigged polling methodologies that… percent.twitter.com/y0QH0jLCbF
— Christian Movick (@ChristianM_74) Would possibly 7, 2024
Kennedy could be more difficult for Trump than Clinton or BIden, that’s evidently.
Kennedy (I) Cheeky (2):
President Trump: Some of the problems I’m hoping to preserve in our debate is your choice to fasten ailing the rustic throughout Covid. Along with your lockdowns, you and President Biden shuttered our church buildings and shops and created 500 unused billionaires in 500 days on the expense of everybody else.… https://t.co/mQwQ1OIuO8
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Would possibly 8, 2024
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IN: “Congresswoman Spartz, who does not support aid to Ukraine, wins Republican primary” [Ukrainska Pravda]. “Spartz, the first and only Ukrainian-born congresswoman, previously supported providing aid to Kyiv. But on the eve of the primaries, she changed her position and voted against the transfer of the US$61 million aid to Ukraine. Spartz claimed that her loyalty was primarily to America and wanted the US-Mexico border policy to be included in the aid package. The election in the northern suburbs of Indianapolis was partly a test of whether Spartz’s manoeuvres would pay off. Her competitors widely shared her position, including state representative Chuck Goodrich, who borrowed US$4.6 million for the campaign. Goodrich attacked Spartz for her past support for Ukraine, saying she puts ‘Ukraine first.’” • Hmm.
OH: “Ohio lawmakers are at odds over effort to ensure Biden appears on November ballot” [NBC]. “An effort to ensure that President Joe Biden is on Ohio’s general election ballot stalled Wednesday in the Legislature, raising the likelihood of legal action to resolve the issue. In a party-line vote, the Republican-controlled state Senate advanced a bill that would relax a pre-convention deadline for Democrats to certify Biden as their nominee — while also outlawing foreign contributions to state ballot measure campaigns. The attachment of the latter provision means the state Senate bill conflicts with a state House fix that was introduced this week, which included no such conditions. The House version would allow Biden’s name to appear on the ballot while also allowing more time and flexibility for political parties to certify presidential nominees in future elections. After the state Senate voted on its measure Wednesday, the Republican-led House adjourned without considering either version.”
PA:
📊 Pennsylvania GE: @muhlenberg_poll
President 🟥 Trump 44% [+3]🟦 Biden 41% [-1]—🟦 Biden 35%🟥 Trump 35%🟨 RFK Jr 18%—Senate🟦 Casey (inc) 45% 🟥 McCormick 41%—Generic Poll 🟦 DEM 45%🟥 GOP 44%—President Biden🟢 Approve 35% [+1]🔴 Disapprove 57% [+4]… percent.twitter.com/apWholYWJc
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) Would possibly 7, 2024
Holy moley! Kennedy at 18% within the swingiest of swing states? What if RFK 18% 35% Trump 35% Biden becomes (say) RFK 25% (+7), Trump 31% (-4) Biden 32% (-3)?
Republican Funhouse
“Johnson defeats attempt to end his speakership” [Politico]. “Speaker Mike Johnson beat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s attempt to end his speakership. The House voted overwhelmingly to table the so-called motion to vacate, with 11 Republicans voting to move forward on the attempt, including Greene. But support from a large swath of Democrats helped Johnson defeat it. It’s still unclear if Greene or other Johnson critics will force another ouster vote before the end of the year — with the Georgia Republican leaving the door open as she left the Capitol. But Wednesday’s vote marks a victory for Johnson, letting him avoid the same fate as his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, who was ejected from the speakership in October. ‘Hopefully this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined 118th Congress,’ Johnson said after Greene’s effort failed. ‘It’s regrettable.’ Greene’s threat has hovered over the House for more than six weeks, when she first introduced her resolution but didn’t immediately trigger a vote. Instead, she held it over Johnson’s head as he navigated a controversial spy program and tens of billions of dollars in new Ukraine aid through Congress. He was able to muscle both through with Democratic help, despite fierce opposition from his right flank.” • With Democrat assistance? That’s no longer “muscle” in my reserve.
Democrats en Déshabillé
“Top senators believe the US secretly recovered UFOs” [The Hill]. “Has the U.S. government secretly retrieved exotic craft of ‘non-human‘ origin? Newly declassified documents, along with extraordinary legislation, illustrate how two successive Democratic Senate majority leaders appear to have believed so… Startling as it may be, the notion that shadowy elements of the U.S. government or defense contractors secretly possess retrieved UFOs is treated as fact in the documents… [T]he Reid- and Lieberman-backed proposal included an ‘Oral History Initiative’ to interview a pre-identified ‘list of retired, previously highly placed government, armed services, contractor, and intelligence community individuals’ with knowledge of the ‘location of advanced aerospace technology and biological samples.’ Even though the Department of Homeland Security’s top scientist was advocating for the establishment of the UFO program and the ‘very serious science involved with’ it, department leadership ultimately quashed the proposal in late 2011. More recently, Schumer and a bipartisan group of five other senators introduced extraordinary legislation alleging the existence of surreptitious “legacy programs” that retrieve and search to reverse-engineer UFOs of “non-human” foundation. In eyebrow-raising feedback at the Senate ground, Schumer mentioned the federal government ‘has gathered a great deal of information about [UFOs] over many decades but has refused to share it with the American people.’” • Perhaps the aliens aren’t as dumb because the alien in Harry Turtledove’s The Street Now not Taken.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Brown, Democracy, and Foot Voting” [George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 24-12]. “Traditional assessments of Brown’s relationship to democracy and popular control of government should be augmented by considering the ways it enhanced citizens’ ability to ‘vote with their feet’ as well as at the ballot box. Brown played a valuable role in reinforcing foot voting, and this has important implications for our understanding of the decision and its legacy. Part I of the article summarizes the relationship between foot voting and ballot box voting, and how the former has important advantages over the latter as a mechanism of political choice. Relative to ballot box voting, foot voting offers individuals and families greater opportunities to make decisive, well-informed choices. It also has special advantages for minority groups, including Blacks. Part II considers traditional attempts to reconcile Brown and democracy, through arguments that the decision was actually ‘representation-reinforcing.’ While each has its merits, they also have significant limitations. Among other flaws, they often do not apply well to the Brown case itself, which famously originated in a challenge to segregation in Topeka, Kansas, a state in which – unlike most of the South – Blacks had long had the right to vote. Part III explains how expanding our understanding of Brown to include foot voting opportunities plugs the major holes in traditional efforts to reconcile the decision and democratic choice. Among other advantages, the foot-voting rationale for Brown applies regardless of whether racial minorities have voting rights, regardless of whether segregation laws are motivated by benign or malevolent motives, and regardless of whether the targeted ethnic or racial groups can form political coalitions with others, or not. In Part IV, I discuss the implications of the foot-voting justification of Brown for judicial review of other policies that inhibit foot voting, particularly in cases where those policies have a history of illicit racial motivations. The most significant of these is exclusionary zoning.” • Hadn’t learned there used to be a dialogue of easy methods to, or whether or not, to “reconcile the [Brown vs. Board of Education] decision and democratic choice.” Nonetheless, the concept that of “foot voting” is fascinating, particularly within the context of The Fat Type.
Pandemics
“I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown via zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization via town).
Lambert right here: Readers, thank you for the collective try. To replace any access, do really feel sovereign to touch me on the deal with given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic series. Thanks!
Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater stories); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Executive of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Airborne Transmission
“Punch-up at 30,000ft: Shocking moment two men brawl on flight to San Francisco after ‘one of them took the other’s seat to get away from another passenger’s constant coughing’” [Daily Mail]. “The fight is said to have broke out after one of the men became upset by a passenger next to him who was constantly coughing. He then took it upon himself to change seats and went to find an empty one. He sat down, but several minutes later, the seat’s original occupant returned. An ensuing row quickly erupted into a violent brawl and cabin crew members had to put themselves between the two men to break it up.” • That’s the complete center of attention of the tale. In the meantime, the cougher persevered to contaminate all of the airplane, and no person, particularly together with the cabin team, idea to inform him to masks up.
“The Nasty Truth About ‘Poo Plumes’ — And How To Protect Yourself From Them” [HuffPo]. “After using lasers to map toilet plumes, scientists confirmed that they can launch as high as six feet in the air and the spray can land as far as six feet from the bowl.” • And let’s no longer disregard concerning the aerosols!
Maskstravaganza
To hand mask-sizing chart:
Mask for The Smallest Children to Younger Youngsters to Used Youngsters, Teenagers & Little Adults
This chart is taken care of via vertical masks dimension, however have compatibility in accordance with 3-d geometry of more than one attributes. Subsequently have compatibility trying out is very important.
Inexperienced mask have headstraps percent.twitter.com/gMXUM9nKLP
— Parenting Mishmash ۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗ (@ParentMishmash) Would possibly 8, 2024
Elite Maleficence
They knew. All alongside:
I keep in mind this… as a result of I used to be invited to WHO headquarters in Geneva in 2021. They opened the home windows for me after I got here. All presen they refused to confess that COVID is airborne to the overall society. In the future I’ll percentage the main points. https://t.co/ve9rQEFKHX
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) Would possibly 8, 2024
They simply didn’t need you to understand. (See NC right here for Walensky and Jha.)
4 years:
The @WHO airborne saga :
Ep.1, March 2020: “COVID-19 is not airborne”
Ep.2 Would possibly 2020: Let’s strengthen the air flow device at our headquarters (one by no means is aware of)
Ep.3 March 2021: Roadmap to indoor air flow
Ep.4 March 2024: COVID-19 is airborne, let’s explain the terminology percent.twitter.com/hLuqlBCvDI
— LET’S AIR / NOUS AÉRONS (@nousaerons) Would possibly 9, 2024
That’s a quantity of deaths.
In the meantime, WHO has discovered completely not anything:
MERS-CoV is an airborne virus, however once more, for those contemporary circumstances, @WHO advises simply touch/droplet precautions! 🤷♂️
Airborne precautions just for “aerosol generating procedures.” Know that speaking generates extra aerosols than these kind of AGPs.
Will they by no means be told? https://t.co/TPbRFYIxcs percent.twitter.com/0xykwMfKPa
— Maarten De Cock (@mdc_martinus) Would possibly 8, 2024
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m getting to must reconsider this fantastically formatted desk. Looks as if Biobot knowledge nonetheless purposes, CDC variant knowledge purposes, ER visits are useless, Unused York hospitalization appears to be useless since 5/1, when CDC banned necessary health center knowledge assortment, Walgreens purposes, Cleveland Health facility purposes, CDC traveler’s knowledge purposes, Unused York Occasions demise knowledge has banned. (Be aware that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long gone ailing). Preferably I’d exchange hospitalization and demise knowledge, however I’m no longer positive how. I may also increase the wastewater division to incorporate (yech) Verily knowledge, H5N1 if I will get it. Tips and assets welcome.
TABLE 1: Day-to-day Covid Charts
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NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Our curve has now flattened out at a degree some distance above valleys below Trump. Now not a splendid victory. Be aware additionally the branch “under the curve,” but even so having a look at peaks. That branch is bigger below Biden than below Trump, and it sort of feels to be emerging incessantly if erratically.
[2] (Biobot) Deny backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.2 has entered the chat, a minimum of within the fashion. Statement:
What CDC projected closing future used to be totally flawed, no longer even akin to what got here to fruition, their forecasting skill is nonexistent, this whole narrative is #damaged percent.twitter.com/E1p8yEIa3p
— Justin Lee (@DailyJLee) Would possibly 3, 2024
As I commented: “Surprise!” (Now I will’t to find it, however I recall monitoring a CDC fashion of illness on the nationwide degree as a result of I knew it will fail, and it did, spectacularly, lacking IIRC Omicron.)
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I believe in partiality of this factor. I can struggle to substantiate. UPDATE Sure, release it to CDC to explode a web page, and upcoming announce it used to be archived a while nearest. And heaven forfend CDC will have to give an explanation for the place to progress to get identical knowledge, if any. I preferred the ER knowledge, as it gave the impression in point of fact crisp to sport.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Seems to be to me just like the chart is updating, however the knowledge isn’t, since CDC made health center knowledge voluntary on Would possibly 1. I assume to a tame epidemiologist it seems like “endemicity,” however to me it seems like any other tranche of lethality.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless ailing. “Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates weekly for the previous MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Department Visits, Test Positivity) and weekly the following Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) Little uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Flattens.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally. Nonetheless disagree point out of KP.2
[11] Looks as if the Occasions isn’t reporting demise knowledge any further? Perhaps I want to progress again to The Economist….
Stats Keep tabs on
Operate Status: “United States Initial Jobless Claims” [Trading Economics].
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Transport: “The federal investigation of the crash of a containership into a bridge outside the Port of Baltimore is taking a dark turn” [Logistics Report, Wall Street Journal] “Criminal investigators are looking at whether the crew or companies behind the vessel violated a centuries-old seaman’s manslaughter statute in the collision that killed six workers. The WSJ’s Costas Paris reports the statute cites neglect or misconduct by a ship’s officer or crew that leads to death and can also be applied to the companies that own or charter a vessel. A focus of the probe has been on electrical issues the ship had at dock with power to refrigerated containers.”
Tech: “Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry” [Futurism]. “We first heard of AdVon last year, after staff at Gannett noticed product reviews getting published on the website of USA Today with bylines that didn’t seem to correspond to real people. The articles were stilted and formulaic, leading the writers’ union to accuse them of being ‘shoddy AI.’ When Gannett blamed the strange articles on AdVon, we started digging. We soon found AdVon had been running a similar operation at the magazine Sports Illustrated, publishing product reviews using bylines of fake writers with fictional biographies and AI-generated profile pictures. The response was explosive: the magazine’s union wrote that it was ‘horrified,’ while its publisher cut ties with AdVon and subsequently fired its CEO before losing the rights to Sports Illustrated entirely.” This is their industry fashion: “Basically, AdVon engages in what Google calls ‘site reputation abuse:’ it strikes deals with publishers in which it provides huge numbers of extremely low-quality product reviews — often for surprisingly prominent publications — intended to pull in traffic from people Googling things like ‘best ab roller.’ The idea seems to be that these visitors will be fooled into thinking the recommendations were made by the publication’s actual journalists and click one of the articles’ affiliate links, kicking back a little money if they make a purchase. It’s a practice that blurs the line between journalism and advertising to the breaking point, makes the web worse for everybody, and renders basic questions like ‘is this writer a real person?’ fuzzier and fuzzier. And sources say yes, the content is frequently produced using AI. ‘It’s completely AI-generated at this point,’ a different AdVon insider told us, explaining that staff essentially ‘generate an AI-written article and polish it.’ Behind the scenes, AdVon responded to our reporting with a fusillade of denials and legal threats.” • If Amazon’s control weren’t blinded via greed, they might have handled their commments division as the superb asset it would had been, and they’d dominate the product overview dimension. However their feedback at the moment are as bent and corrupt because the extra in their corporate.
Tech: Apple idea this advert used to be a good suggestion:
A 3rd of the earth used to be burned up, a 3rd of the bushes have been burned up, and the entire inexperienced grass used to be burned up.The second one angel sounded his trumpet, and one thing like a plethora mountain, all ablaze, used to be thrown into the ocean. A 3rd of the ocean was blood. https://t.co/nZjlpNd73O
— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) Would possibly 8, 2024
(Parenthetically, I believe Apple’s obsession with thinness is ill.) Many — let’s no longer significance the word of honour “creators,” please — artists offer deeply about their mediums: Paint, guitars, pianos, cameras, and so on. Apple crushing all of it is in point of fact repellent.
Production: “Boeing is celebrating the latest employee to come forward with dirt on the company ‘for doing the right thing’” [Business Insider]. “Boeing is lauding an employee who reported a lapse with the 787 Dreamliner’s safety checks. A senior Boeing executive said the employee should be celebrated for doing the ‘right thing.’ Two whistleblowers who raised issues about Boeing’s planes have passed away suddenly this year.” • Honey, I’ve modified!
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Lately’s Concern & Greed Index: 43 Concern (earlier akin: 39 Concern) [CNN]. One future in the past: 39 (Concern). (0 is Latter Concern; 100 is Latter Greed). Terminating up to date Would possibly 9 at 1:47:22 PM ET.
Guillotine Keep tabs on
“The ‘delicious irony’ of the Met Gala’s Garden of Time theme” [BBC]. “The title of JG Ballard’s 1962 short story The Garden of Time has an elegiac romanticism to it…. This year, fashion’s annual extravaganza the Met Gala has taken Ballard’s title as its dress code…. [Ballard’s story] relays the tale of Count Axel and his Countess wife who live in a magnificent hilltop villa, surrounded by their gardens. These gardens, where ‘the air seemed brighter, the sun seemed warmer’ hold a series of ‘time flowers’… The flowers can slow the clock, but they cannot stop it…. Count Axel is not picking his precious flowers for the thrill of it. On the horizon, an army advances, “a vast confused throng of people, men and women, interspersed with a few soldiers in ragged uniforms, pressing forward in a disorganised tide”. Occasion the Countess performs Mozart on her harpsichord, and the Depend has a tendency to his library, this family attracts ever nearer, threatening wreck on their arrival. Every flower delays the inevitable, pushing the family again somewhat. However there are handiest such a lot of vegetation, and less are rising. The villa’s days are numbered, husband and spouse residing in an attractive glass jail.” • “The Hamptons are not a defensible position.” –Mark Blythe
Elegance Battle
“Woman found living inside Family Fare sign in Midland” [Midland Daily News]. “When contractors were working at the Family Fare grocery store in Midland, they unexpectedly found a woman, 34, living inside the rooftop sign. Contractors discovered an extension cord on the roof and traced it to the dwelling inside the Family Fare sign. Midland Police Department was called to investigate the situation. ‘They were like ‘OMG, someone is living in that sign,” mentioned Midland Police Section People Members of the family Officer Brennon Warren of the April 23 discovering at 2026 N. Saginaw Street. “I’ve never seen anything like this before in my career.” The girl, who police nicknamed the ‘Rooftop Ninja,’ lived throughout the bind signal for roughly a time, Warren mentioned. Within her residing, she had a petite table, floor, a pantry of meals or even a houseplant. ‘She made it home,’ Warren mentioned. ”
“Unions, Advocates Urge DOJ Criminal Probe of Kroger, Albertsons” [Bloomberg]. “The US Justice Department should investigate whether Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. engaged in illegal collusion, unions and advocates say, citing evidence unearthed in recent lawsuits seeking to block the grocery giants’ proposed merger. The US Federal Trade Commission and a group of states sued the companies in federal court in February to thwart their $24.6 billion tie-up, on the heels of a similar lawsuit filed by Colorado’s attorney general in state court. Both complaints cite communications indicating that the two grocers have relied on non-solicitation agreements and pacts not to poach each other’s workers and customers—evidence that advocates and labor groups argue warrants a criminal investigation by federal antitrust enforcers. ‘Crucially, overt violations like price-fixing via non-solicitation agreements, as well as wage-fixing via no-poach agreements, carry potential criminal penalties,’ anti-monopoly group the American Economic Liberties Project and a coalition of seven United Food and Commercial Workers local unions said in their letter to the DOJ on Wednesday.”
Information of the Stressed out
“The Genius Ingredient for Perfect Gooey Cheese Sauce” [Serious Eats]. “What if I told you that there’s a way to make a cheese sauce as smooth and creamy as a jar of Velveeta from just about any melting cheese with nothing more than a single innocuous ingredient that is possibly already in your medicine cabinet. That’s right: no emulsifying salts that require a special order, no futzing with cornstarch and evaporated milk, and no floury roux. The secret ingredient is Aspirin-Free Alka-Seltzer and today is the day that I reveal its cheese-sauce-making superpower to the world.” • Information you’ll be able to significance!
“Before Palmer Penmanship” [JSTOR Daily]. “”For [John] Jenkins, well-fashioned writing and alternative professional handwork have been dignified highbrow actions,’ Christen writes, ‘and the capable craftsman—whether represented by the ingenious mechanic or dutiful clerk—was an archetype for the early nineteenth century.’ This used to be in just right moment for the industrializing economic system, as the growth of white collar roles intended extra population wanted environment friendly and readable handwriting. Jenkins used to be environment the fashion for each an educational mode (breaking ailing the talent into smaller gadgets) and a global of increasingly more text-based communique.” • My handwriting has all the time been sinister; after I were given an iPad with a pen, and sought after to do captions and so on, I needed to exchange all my letter methods….
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