By way of Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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Fowl Track of the Moment
Southern Scrub-Robin, Gluepot Accumulation–monitor 8, Unincorporated SA, South Australia, Australia. “Songs from a bird near the ground in an area of fairly short, dense mallee.” I assumed this may be Southern scrub in The usa. However deny, Australia!
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In Case You Would possibly Leave out…
(1) Trump faces prison, a chance for fundraising.
(2) Hope Hicks testifies (and calls).
(3) Texas dairies incorrect to permit Federal epidemiological garden research.
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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
Oddly, this West Wing maneuver were given deny play games:
RESIGN https://t.co/5ki6Vfw5qP
— worms cited (@christapeterso) Might 3, 2024
“Biden’s Incomplete Industrial Policy” [Foreign Affairs]. “But notwithstanding the statistics, many Americans continue to feel that the economy is not working for them. Abiding structural weaknesses, including weak labor laws, underinvestment in accessible education and health care, high rates of indebtedness, and rising income and wealth inequality, mean that most Americans are not experiencing the gains of the current recovery. Citing abstract numbers to persuade a public that is still pinching pennies will do little to win over skeptical voters who do not trust that the system is working for them. To convince Americans that a second term will allow them to reap the full benefits of Biden’s new industrial policy, the administration must make progress on implementing the structural reforms needed to truly expand the U.S. economy from the “middle out and bottom up,” because the White Space described its financial ambition in June 2023. This will likely require a wider and bolder means—person who doesn’t shy clear of arresting the fat financialization of the rustic’s company sector.” • The week to try this would had been terminating age,
2024
Lower than a age to walk!
RCP Ballot Averages, Might 3:
Nationwide effects now transferring Trump’s manner. However one of the crucial Swing States (extra right here) at the moment are transferring Biden’s manner, together with Michigan and Wisconsin, which is not any suspicion why Trump visited them on his month off. Pennsylvania, OTOH, simply inclined to Trump. In fact, it is going with out announcing that those are all environment polls, subsequently evil. Now, if both candidate begins to enter issues, rather of tenths of some degree….
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Trump Found in Contempt, Threatened With Jail for Violating Gag Order (Again)” [Rolling Stone]. “‘I find you in criminal contempt for the 10th time.’ The fourth week of Trump’s hush-money trial kicked off on Monday with Judge Juan Merchan once again ruling that the former president violated his court-imposed gag order, fining him $1,000 and warning him that continued violations could result in jail time. Merchan first found Trump in contempt of court last week, fining him $9,000 for nine gag-order violations flagged by prosecutors, ‘It appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent,’ Merchan told Trump on Monday. ‘The last thing I want to do is to put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States, and possibly the next president as well. There are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last resort for you.’ ‘So as much as I do not want to propose a jail sanction,” Merchan warned. ‘That I can, if essential.’” • Throwing Trump within the briar pocket….
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Donald Trump Is Actually For Real Close to Going to Jail This Time” [New York Magazine]. “The threat of jail time will determine whether Trump — who repeatedly violated a gag order in last year’s civil business-fraud case — is all that concerned about staying out of jail. (He did delete offending social-media posts before a Judge Merchan-imposed deadline last week, so he or his team is capable of some restraint.) Either way, there’s a good chance he will use the prospect of incarceration to make some money for his campaign.” • Yep. From terminating past–
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Trump quickly fundraises off judge’s contempt ruling in hush money case” [Politico]. “”A Democrat pass judgement on JUST HELD ME IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!” learn a Tuesday morning e-mail soliciting donations for Trump Nationwide Committee, a joint fundraising committee that comes with Trump’s marketing campaign and the Republican Nationwide Committee…. Trump is already a reasonably prolific fundraiser, however moments of criminal jeopardy have pushed a few of his perfect fundraising within the month In March, his marketing campaign were given a weighty spike in donations nearest Unutilized York Lawyer Basic Tish James took a step towards seizing the previous president’s property if he couldn’t assemble bail in a civil case. Latter fall, the marketing campaign raked in additional than $4 million in a month nearest Trump were given his mug shot taken in Georgia, the place he faces fees alike to makes an attempt to topple the 2020 election. After Tuesday afternoon, Trump’s staff took out advertisements on X (previously referred to as Twitter), stating {that a} contempt violation isn’t one thing former presidents in most cases must trade in with. ‘This has never happened before in HISTORY!’ the advert mentioned. Trump is ‘maximizing the opportunity cost’ [huh] of the condition, energizing his bottom by means of ‘continuing to spin the narrative that he is a victim of everything that he has done’ and probably reactivating small-dollar donors, mentioned Matthew Bartlett, a Republican advisor and previous Trump management appointee. ‘It might be $9,000 in additional court fees,’ Bartlett mentioned. ‘However it’ll more than likely properly accommodation the marketing campaign coffers.’”
Trump (R): “Trump, RNC raise over $76 million in April, half from small donors” [Reuters]. “Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign and the Republican National Committee said on Saturday that they raised more than $76 million in April, over half of it from small donors. The monthly fundraising haul exceeded the $65.6 million raised in March by Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, and the RNC.”
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Alvin Bragg’s entire case against Trump hinges on a disbarred serial perjurer” [Jonathan Turley, The Hill]. • Turley pounding the desk on Cohen. Additionally this: “It is not clear what crime Trump was supposedly trying to conceal by making “hush-money” bills to former porn actress Windy Daniels.” • Incorrect, it’s sunny; Unutilized York’s 17-152 (see right here). Now, you might to find Bragg’s idea of the case greater than a tiny extraordinary, however a minimum of Bragg has put one thing ahead. (Two conspiracies appear to be required required, one for 17-152 and the alternative (?) for the industry information violation. I don’t think Trump may also be charged two times for a similar conspiracy.)
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Trump (R): “What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?” [The New Yorker]. “At the end of the day, I walked out of the courthouse with another journalist who’s been attending the trial. He didn’t buy Hicks’s tears. ‘Come on,’ he said. ‘She’s a crisis-communications professional.’ She’d been terse at crucial moments for the prosecution, and generous with her praise of Trump. (‘A very good multitasker and a very hard worker,’ she called him.) Though she’d confirmed that Trump and his circle were worried that sex scandals would hurt him in the 2016 election, she’d also testified that Trump had asked his staff to hide newspapers from Melania when the Wall Street Journal published an article about McDougal. (‘I don’t think he wanted anyone in his family to be hurt or embarrassed by anything that was happening on the campaign,’ she said. ‘He wanted them to be proud of him.’) It wasn’t clear if her testimony had helped either side. Maybe it had helped Hope Hicks.” • It’s sunny that Trump’s body of workers was once disenchanted in the name of the marketing campaign; it’s now not sunny to me from the reporting who disenchanted Trump (the individual being charged) was once. Nearest all, what number of alternative storms had he already weathered?
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Trump (R): “Trump Campaign Talks Up His Prospects of Flipping Two States” [Bloomberg]. “Trump’s team said its polling shows he has a chance to win Minnesota and Virginia, according to two donors who heard the presentation at a retreat in Palm Beach, Florida…. Casting his prospects as potentially expanding the electoral map for Republicans is part of a strategy to persuade donors that they’d be placing a winning bet on the former president. Trump eyed Minnesota as a potential flip in 2020 before losing the state to Biden, in part because his campaign hit a cash crunch during the crucial closing stretch of the cycle.”
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Kennedy (I): “RFK Jr. reads attacks from pundits in new video from super PAC: ‘He is nuts’” [The Hill]. “The video begins with Kennedy, reading: “‘He is nuts and clearly disturbed,’ The Standard; ‘He’s angry,’ Vanity Fair; ‘His own family hates him,’ The New York Post; ‘He sounds like he is transmitting from another galaxy he is so crazy,’ The New York Post; ‘Kennedy is a humorless bully living in a paranoid fantasy,’ Vanity Fair; ‘What the f— is wrong with Bobby Kennedy?’… Kennedy then laughs to himself, and the camera switches to a low, profile shot, giving the appearance of a behind-the-scenes view of the production team. Kennedy leans over his shoulder, looks into the camera directly and says, “I wouldn’t vote for that guy either.’The title of the video — “Who is Bobby Kennedy?” with the subhead, “‘What if he’s not crazy?’” — after flashes around the display screen. The remains of the video introduces the target audience to the candidate’s biography…. Following the video’s leave on Friday, Meta-owned Fb and Instagram to start with prohibited the video on each platforms. A spokesperson for Meta mentioned the video was once incorrectly flagged as junk mail and the problem was once addressed quickly nearest it was once came upon.” • A mistake by means of Meta. In fact. Right here’s the video:
Kennedy (I): At the Pandemic Treaty:
49 Republican Senators wrote to President Biden challenging he take out U.S. aid for the WHO Pandemic “Word of honour” and primary amendments to the Global Condition Rules.
The Senators indicate that those 2 paperwork would:
1. Give the WHO Director-Basic the authority… percent.twitter.com/4AniXvwkrZ
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) Might 4, 2024
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“A Tale of Two Elections” [National Populist Newsletter]. “While national polling remains tight, there’s a significant divide in the electoral college polling separated between the South and the Midwest. This election comes down to The Sun Belt vs. The Rust Belt…. For the casual political observer who doesn’t know, the Sun Belt is the strip of 14 states south of the 36th parallel. It is highly diverse, heavily Hispanic, fast-growing, and worth 234 electoral college votes. This region has the critical swing states of North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada – all of which were decided by less than five points.” I don’t assume both Texas or Florida are Swing States, despite the fact that Democrats want they had been. Extra: “The Rust Belt is the region of the Midwest that once represented the industrial base of the United States after WWII. It went from the Steel Belt to the Rust Belt as jobs moved overseas during globalization, and mining and energy jobs started disappearing. The Rust Belt includes Western New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are the three most important states that have a chance of flipping.” And: “From 2020, whites without a college degree will make up more than a quarter of Biden’s base, and in the Rust Belt, it’s close to a majority. Trump will need to keep these voters because he cannot rely on his growing support from Latinos and Asians to make up the difference in these states.” • Hmm.
Democrats en Déshabillé
“Jeffries: Democrats ‘effectively’ in majority because of GOP ‘chaos, dysfunction’” [The Hill]. “Jeffries said Sunday in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell that Democrats book outright affect over the Space on account of how fractured the GOP majority is. ‘Even though we’re within the minority, we successfully had been governing as though we had been within the majority as a result of we proceed to grant a majority of the votes essential to get issues completed,’ Jeffries mentioned. ‘Those are just the facts.’ ‘It’s a hard condition at the alternative aspect of the aisle, as a result of lots of my Republican colleagues are extra fascinated about developing chaos, disorder, and extremism,’ he endured. The Republican majority within the Space stands at simply 5 seats, with all in attendance, which means Johnson has deny room for error on debatable expenses to assure passage with out running with Democrats. Johnson additionally faces an ouster blackmail from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has blasted the Speaker for running with Democrats and making a ‘uniparty.’ Jeffries and Democrats have mentioned they’re going to give protection to Johnson towards Greene’s movement to leave. He mentioned that Johnson has now not requested him for backup, however that backing the Speaker is what must be completed.” • Splendid. So codify Roe, or one thing.
2020 Put up Mortem
“Sen. Tom Story: The 2020 Election ‘Was Not Fair’ And ‘Was Rigged In Many Ways’” [RealClearPolitics]. “Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton told ABC’s “This Year” on Sunday that he is of the same opinion with Donald Trump that the 2020 election ‘was rigged in many ways.’ As an example, Story cites ‘Democratic states and cities changing election laws and election practices up to the last minute,’ ‘the media… and 51 Democratic intelligence operatives saying the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation,’ and ‘social media then censoring all those things.’ ‘Those were all deeply unfair,’ Story mentioned. ‘I never, and Donald Trump has never, said… crazy conspiracies about Venezuela rigging the voting machines.’” • All that may be true — on the Hunter Biden laptop debacle, Cotton is undoubtedly right — but that is not the case Trump made at the time. Trump — because, I think, he’s sloppy and undisciplined, and on this case had extraordinarily evil recommendation — went for the vote casting procedure (and did so with out involving any of the professionals who may have proven him the place the vulnerabilities within the gadget in truth are. In consequence, hand-marked paper ballots, hand-counted in people have change into MAGA-adjacent, rather of being percieved as the worldwide same old they actually are [pounds head on desk]).
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; comprises many counties; Wastewater Scan, comprises drilldown by means of zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts” (particularly on hospitalization by means of town).
Lambert right here: Readers, thank you for the collective struggle. To replace any access, do really feel sovereign to touch me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the matter layout. 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 studies); 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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Maskstravaganza
Our neoliberal international:
we have now arrived on the extortion a part of pandemic capitalism. just right god https://t.co/VEIw6MYaFu
— Raani Begum (@raanibegum) Might 3, 2024
Checking out and Monitoring: H5N1
“From sewage to safety: Hospital wastewater surveillance as a beacon for defense against H5N1 bird flu” [STAT]. “If the H5N1 virus gains the ability for sustained human-to-human transmission, we could have another deadly pandemic on our hands. These developments are of great concern to scientists like us who work on pandemic preparedness and response. We believe there is an urgent need to develop the capacity to rapidly detect and monitor the potential spillover of H5N1 into humans, including sustained human-to-human transmission. This will be challenging — if not impossible — by relying primarily on traditional public health surveillance approaches. A relatively novel tool, wastewater surveillance, demonstrated great potential during the Covid-19 pandemic for early detection and monitoring of that threat on a large scale, yet it remains vastly under-leveraged for H5N1 at this precarious moment…. Given that the most likely source of future pandemics will be from microbes circulating in the animal kingdom, the settings considered for wastewater surveillance for zoonotic pathogens like H5N1 should expand to include waste directly collected from facilities such as hospitals, large-scale emergency departments and outpatient health care providers, schools and universities, and nursing homes to enable more rapid and definitive detection and differentiation of animal outbreaks from human spillover activity leading to sustained community transmission.”
Sequelae: Covid
Alert reader LawnDart throws please see to hand crystal clear over the transom:
“Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.” –Samuel Beckett, Endgame.
Remedy: Covid
“Oral antivirals for acute symptoms and post-acute sequelae in SARS-CoV-2 infection” (remark) [The Lancet]. “Current data, including the results from Wang and colleagues’ study,1 support a mechanistic view in which reducing viral replication might be important for improving mid-term to long-term clinical outcomes…. In summary, oral antiviral agents given promptly could help mitigate hospitalisation burden, facilitate post-exposure prophylaxis, reduce post-COVID-19 sequelae, and potentially minimise household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Thus, clinical development of antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 should remain a priority. Antivirals are a powerful complement to vaccines and will help to further ameliorate the global clinical burden of COVID-19 in the coming years.”
Superstar Oversee
Now my favourite Beatle:
Paul McCartney dressed in a masks nowadays in Long island. (Mega-celebrities can worth them to additionally deflect consideration. However clearly that didn’t totally paintings on this case.) percent.twitter.com/ttlXLHoxfD
— #9 Dream (@GayFabFourFan) Might 3, 2024
Elite Maleficence
“Closing Soon! Sign and Share Our Expert Letter to Mandy Cohen Urging Science-Based COVID Isolation Guidance” [People’s CDC]. “May 11 is the 1 year anniversary of the premature end of the federal public health emergency (PHE). The end of the PHE brought the end to many crucial resources, and continued rollbacks in resources and public health guidance put our communities at even greater risk. Our expert letter asking for a minimum of 7-10 days isolation for COVID has already received over 300 signatures from experts and over 700 signatures from members of the public. In recognition of the anniversary of the end of the PHE, we will continue taking signatures through May 11 and will deliver the letter to CDC Director Mandy Cohen shortly thereafter.” Notice the restriction: “This letter is for public health professionals, scientists, healthcare workers, disability advocates, and others who consider themselves experts in public health.”
“‘They need to back off’: Farm states push back on Biden’s bird flu response” [Politico]. “Many farmers don’t want federal health officials on their property…. Texas, the first state where the bird flu virus was detected, has not invited the CDC to conduct epidemiological field studies there, even though its health department is open to the research, because, “We haven’t found a dairy farm that is interested in participating,” mentioned Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas Area of Surrounding Condition Products and services…. CDC officers are conscious about the gaps within the company’s early reaction to Covid-19 right through the Trump management, a misstep Biden officers are intent on warding off simply months earlier than the 2024 election. The White Space’s pristine Workplace of Pandemic Preparedness and Reaction Coverage has taken price of coordinating paintings around the diverse federal businesses, assembly incessantly with supremacy officers and consulting out of doors professionals in an struggle to supremacy the dangers dealing with farm animals and people indistinguishable. Senior pandemic preparedness officers acknowledge that hen flu represents the primary true take a look at for the fledgling workplace, aides mentioned, particularly amid skepticism from Trump and others who’ve puzzled whether or not it must exist. White Space important of body of workers Jeff Zients has taken a private pastime within the hen flu reaction.” • God backup us. In any case, it’s both “freedumb” or the H5N1 condition in Texas is some distance worse than we’re being instructed.
Any individual must sue UConn for the open ADA violation:
Banning mask when disabled scholars, school contributors and society need to attend commencement?
Now not cool UConn. percent.twitter.com/hOlGUFyKLW
— Dr. Mary Donegan (@Dr_Donegan) Might 3, 2024
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“American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Introduces New Brand Identity” (press leave) [American Association of Immunologists (AAI)]. “”This pristine emblem displays AAI’s forward-leaning means and symbolizes journey and cohesion throughout the immunology and medical communities. Its dynamic and colourful design showcases AAI’s various experience and inclusivity, illuminating its distinctive function in advancing immunology,” mentioned President Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D.” • Akiko Iwasaki is tone on nasal vaccines, however I reserve sight footage of AAI contributors unmasked at meetings and events, so I’m of 2 minds, right here. In any case, right here’s the pristine emblem:
Do we have now any skilled crystal clear artists within the target audience who can remark?
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TABLE 1: Day-to-day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts pristine nowadays; all others don’t seem to be up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution symbol, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) at the chart thumbnail and “open image in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Our curve has now flattened out at a degree some distance above valleys beneath Trump. Now not a superb victory. Notice additionally the branch “under the curve,” but even so having a look at peaks. That branch is greater beneath Biden than beneath Trump, and it sort of feels to be emerging continuously if erratically.
[2] (Biobot) Incorrect backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.2 has entered the chat, a minimum of within the style. Remark:
What CDC projected terminating past was once totally fallacious, now not even alike to what got here to fruition, their forecasting talent is nonexistent, this whole narrative is #damaged percent.twitter.com/E1p8yEIa3p
— Justin Lee (@DailyJLee) Might 3, 2024
As I commented: “Surprise!” (Now I will’t to find it, however I recall monitoring a CDC style of illness on the nationwide stage 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 partial of this factor. I can attempt to substantiate. UPDATE Sure, loose it to CDC to shoot a web page, and after announce it was once archived a month after. And heaven forfend CDC will have to give an explanation for the place to walk to get identical knowledge, if any. I preferred the ER knowledge, as it appeared in point of fact dehydrated to sport.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Knocking down out to a non-zero baseline. I guess to a tame epidemiologist it seems like “endemicity,” however to me it seems like any other tranche of lethality.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless ill. “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) Minute uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Flattens.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally. Nonetheless deny point out of KP.2
[11] Looks as if the Occasions isn’t reporting dying knowledge to any extent further? Perhaps I want to walk again to The Economist….
Stats Oversee
There are not any legitimate statistics of pastime nowadays.
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Production: “Boeing faces 10 more whistleblowers after two die: ‘People’s lives are at stake’” [New York Post]. “[Barnett and Dean lawyer Brian] Knowles pointed out that the Charleston, SC, police are still wrapping up their investigation of Barnett’s death — and that it may take some weeks for tests to reveal more about Dean’s passing.” • The Charleston police are certainbly taking their very own candy week, aren’t they? And the “tests” for Dean are his mom challenging an post-mortem.
Production: “Commercial jet maker Airbus is staying humble even as Boeing flounders. There’s a reason for that” [Associated Press]. “Airbus has outpaced Boeing for five straight years in plane orders and deliveries, and just reported a 28% quarterly increase in net profit. It was already winning market share by beating Boeing to develop a line of fuel-efficient, mid-sized aircraft that are cheaper for airlines to fly…. Yet the European company is unlikely to extend its advantage in the Airbus-Boeing duopoly much further despite having customers clamoring for more commercial aircraft, according to aviation analysts. The reason: Airbus already is making planes as fast as it can and has a backlog of more than 8,600 orders to fill.” • That’s a quantity. Perhaps COMAC can select up the slack.
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Nowadays’s Worry & Greed Index: 40 Worry (earlier alike: 39 Worry) [CNN]. One past in the past: 43 (Worry). (0 is Terminating Worry; 100 is Terminating Greed). Latter up to date Might 6 at 1:35:49 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Document Prime, October 10, 2016: 189. Wave: 187. (Keep in mind that bringing at the Rapture is just right.) • Fowl flu now not a priority, it appears. And I dislike even to walk right here, however the “Tribulation Temple” division is an insignificant 3. If Tribulation Temple = 3rd Temple = no matter temple it’s that the Purple Heifer loons need to develop, after the Rapture Index is making a choice, and it’s announcing “Don’t worry about the Red Heifers.”
The Gallery
Monet’s Ground:
Guillotine Oversee
Those population have difference cash:
Nachos are $180 at F1 Miami
We want a accumulation extra charge hikes percent.twitter.com/LXcC8LT6pj
— Inverse Cramer (Now not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) Might 5, 2024
Information of the Stressed
“Ancient-ish Woolen Dutch Hats” [Kottke.org]. “Nothing more exciting than knitted items!” •Right here they’re:
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