Through Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, extra in a while on election 2024. There used to be a bundle to get my head round.
Chook Tune of the Moment
Fulvous-crowned Scrub-Tyrant, Palo Blanco, Venezuela. “Natural song. Also prominently heard are Synallaxis albescens and ‘Oficialito?’”
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In Case You Would possibly Pass over…
(1) Unused Swing circumstance abstract.
(2) Hillary Clinton at the lack of understanding of stripling.
(3) Trump will love prison.
(4) Doable nasal leak, and also you’ll by no means assumption from whom.
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Search for the Helpers
“Words with Friends” [Commonweal]. “[The Oxford English Dictionary] is the gold standard of academic English-language lexicography and a key tool behind many research projects into the history of English, including many other dictionaries…. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, as it was originally called, expounded a new model for dictionaries—the historical dictionary—teaching readers, many for the first time, to think of linguistic form and meaning as historically mutable. Words change—this is the OED’s great lesson, taught one dictionary entry at a time. Such change is documented and illuminated by quotations from historical and contemporary sources….. A dictionary, said [Richard Chenevix Trench], ‘is an inventory of the language.’ As for the lexicographer: ‘It is no task of the maker of [a dictionary] to select the good words of a language…. The business which he has undertaken is to collect and arrange all the words, whether good or bad.’ Or, as the OED’s exuberant founding editor, philologist Frederick Furnivall, said, ‘Fling our doors wide! All, all, not one, but all must enter.’ Furnivall was talking about words, of course, but he might have been talking about people as well. For the OED was created with the help of many hands, male and female, English and foreigner, living inside Britain and all over the world. These readers—incredibly helpful, unpaid volunteers who read what they wanted, but in some cases accepted rather exacting assignments—helped make the OED what it is: a singular treasure trove of English-language history.”
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My electronic mail cope with is unwell by means of the plant; please ship examples of “Helpers” there. In our an increasing number of determined and fragile neoliberal family, on a regular basis standard incidents and tales of “the communism of everyday life” are what I’m on the lookout for (and now not, say, the Purple Go in Hawaii, and even the UNWRA in Gaza).
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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2024
Not up to a part a occasion to progress!
RCP Ballot Averages, Would possibly 10:
Nationwide effects now transferring Trump’s means. The entire Swing States (extra right here) at the moment are in Trump’s column, together with Michigan and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania leans extra Trump this future than endmost. After all, it is going with out announcing that those are all circumstance polls, due to this fact wicked, and lots of the effects are throughout the margin of error. Now, if both candidate begins breaking away in issues, rather of tenths of some degree…. NOTE I modified the notation: Up and unwell arrows for will increase or decreases over endmost future, circles for incorrect exchange. Purple = Trump. Blue can be Biden if he had been prominent anyplace, however he isn’t.
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Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Stormy Daniels delivers shocking testimony about Trump, but trial hinges on business records” [Associated Press]. “But despite all the talk over what may have happened in that hotel room, despite the discomfiting testimony by the adult film actor that she consented to sex in part because of a “power imbalance,” the case towards Trump doesn’t get up or fall on whether or not her account is right and even plausible. It’s an ordeal about cash converting arms — industry transactions — and whether or not the ones bills had been made to illegally affect the 2016 election.” This isn’t in point of fact right kind. Bragg’s two layer structure, as I display right here, calls for him to transform the industry data violations into felonies by means of appearing that they had been carried out in provider to a 2d crime, the article offense. Illegally influencing the 2016 election isn’t essentially a type of offenses. Extra: “At the time of the payment to Daniels, Trump and his campaign were reeling from the October 2016 publication of the never-before-seen 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ footage in which he boasted about grabbing women without their permission. Prosecutors have argued that the political firestorm over the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape hastened Cohen’s payment to keep Daniels from going public with her claims that could further hurt Trump in the eyes of female voters.” I might very similar to to know how that’s unlawful, i.e. the article offense. Extra: “The tape rattled the Republican National Committee leadership, and ‘there were conversations about how it would be possible to replace him as the candidate if it came to that,’ according to testimony from Madeleine Westerhout, a Trump aide who was working at the RNC when the recording leaked.” • So a number of staffers are operating round with their hair on fireplace, which is ok, that’s their process. However the problem — contributors of the Unused York Bar please right kind me — isn’t what the staffers concept; it’s what Trump concept. As far as I do know, the one direct remark we’ve got that implies Trump’s intent is from Hope Hicks: He sought after to give protection to Melania. That’s now not the sought-for object offense. I additionally in finding it dehydrated to imagine that Trump used to be nervous in any respect; he’s, later all, within the industry of managing and promoting his popularity, and sexually, “he’s no angel.” I might speculate Trump concept electorate, by no means thoughts the staffers — let rejected dogpiling kind Democrats acting aghastitude — had his peccadillos priced in. And within the tournament, he used to be right kind, and the staffers and the kind Democrats had been mistaken. Caveat that I’ve but to collection in the course of the docket.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Judge denies motion for a mistrial in Donald Trump hush money case after defense lawyers claim Stormy Daniels’ ‘spanking’ testimony and no condom claim were ‘prejudicial’” [Daily Mail]. “Judge Merchan tore into the defense lawyers while delivering his decision to deny the motion for a mistrial. He said he had gone back through the testimony transcript and made sure no one had violated his guidelines for questioning the witness. He said he was satisfied with his review but he did not stop there. Merchan pointed out that Blanche had denied there had ever been a sexual encounter between Trump and Daniels in his opening statement, and by bringing it up, Blanche had put the jury in position to have to choose who they would believe. The judge basically blamed the defense, saying the more Daniels could provide specific details about the encounter, the more the jury could weigh whether to give her credit. Merchan agreed some of the details of the testimony by Daniels did not need to come out and specifically referenced her claim Trump did not wear a condom, but he slammed Trump’s lawyers for not objecting. Before denying the mistrial motion, Merchan also rejected the defense’s motion for the gag order to be modified. Blanche had argued against the gag order in light of Daniels’ testimony stating Trump ‘needs an opportunity to respond to the American people.’ He noted Daniels was no longer a witness. But prosecutor Chris Conroy argued that modifying the gag order mid-trial would signal to future witnesses that they could ‘be at risk as well.’ Merchan dismissed the gag order request that Trump be allowed to talk about Daniels. ‘My concern is not just protecting Ms. Daniels,’ the judge said. ‘My concern is protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole.’”• I don’t assume Merchan is mistaken in this.
Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): “Trump arrives at hush money trial as prosecutors prepare for final witnesses” [Reuters]. “Prosecutors have called 16 witnesses, and said they could rest their case by May 21. Last month, defense lawyer Susan Necheles said prosecutors had provided them a list of 20 potential witnesses. They may not call all those witnesses, and prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said in court on Thursday they do not plan to call McDougal.” • That to me hints that the prosecution doesn’t regard the Breezy Daniels testimony as a good fortune. Why now not collection on with McDougal?
Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Unredactions Reveal Early White House Involvement in Trump Documents Case” [Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigation]. Ignored this one. “Top Biden administration officials worked with the National Archives to develop Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump involving the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified material, according to recently unsealed court documents in the case pending in southern Florida…. The new disclosures indicate the Department of Justice was in touch with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) during much of 2021, undermining the DOJ’s claims that it became involved in the matter only after the Archives sent it a criminal referral on February 9, 2022, based on the findings of records with ‘classified markings’ in 15 boxes of materials Trump gave to the Archives a month prior. The court exhibits, which were compiled by Trump’s defense lawyers and kept under seal until last week, also show that Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su regularly communicated with Archive officials. Although Biden himself is not mentioned in the exhibits, the active participation of Su and other high-ranking White House officials raises questions about whether Biden was forthright when he told ’60 Minutes’ he wasn’t involved in the investigation.” • Almost definitely now not, in truth. What occurs if he blurts one thing out?
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Trump (R): “2024 Election: A Certain Fatalism Sets In” [Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal]. “I end with a word to Trump foes who hope he’ll be found guilty in the New York case and sentenced to prison time. They think this will finish him off. It will not. Donald Trump doesn’t know it, but he will love prison. He’ll be the most specially treated convict in American history, better than the mob bosses in “Goodfellas.” He’ll be in his mobile along with his telephone—he’ll get one—live-streaming and live-Truthing; he’ll be posing thumbs up in his uniform surrounded by means of gangbangers and white collar hoodlums. He’ll philosophize about how a bundle of public in jail don’t need to be there, the gadget’s rigged, he’ll imagine pardons. All convicts let you know that they had been railroaded, however this shall be unused to Trump, he’ll imagine them. He’ll be the king of Rikers. He’ll say he’s realized a bundle and the guards are interested in Trump and he’s getting to get out and reform the justice gadget. It’ll be fabulous for him. He’ll put himself as Martin Luther King and he’ll be writing Truths From the Birmingham Prison. Nation overlook: He loves this, loves the sport, the drama, and the satan looks after his personal.” • Musical pause:
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“Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say” [Politico]. “Former President Donald Trump asked oil industry executives last month to donate $1 billion to aid his campaign to retake the White House, three people familiar with the conversation told POLITICO — a request that campaign finance experts said appeared troubling but is probably legal. The request, first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, occurred during a meeting of industry executives at the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Florida…. One person not at the dinner — Dan Eberhart, chief executive of the Denver-based oil company Canary LLC — said participants told him that Trump asked the attendees to contribute a combined $1 billion for his campaign. Two industry representatives whose companies attended the meeting confirmed the amount to POLITICO. Trump’s request is ‘shocking,’ but it would almost certainly not break the law, said Meredith McGehee, an independent expert on government ethics and campaign finance. Unless Trump wrote on a napkin during the meeting an exact amount of money he wanted deposited in a specific campaign vehicle in exchange for a specific policy goal, there’s little chance it would violate bribery laws as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court, McGehee said…. Another campaign finance expert expressed doubts that Trump’s behavior violated the law. ‘Isn’t that what campaigning is?’ Bradley Smith, chair of the Institute for Free Speech and former chair of the Federal Election Commission, said of Trump’s ask to the oil executives. ‘Certainly if one is an office holder and one promises a specific federal action like, ‘You’ll get this permit,’ or something like that, you have an issue. But to make a sort of general pledge, ‘You’ve got to give me lots of money because I’m really going to help out your business,’ it’s fine,’ he said. Smith added: ‘It’s a minor difference of degree from Joe Biden saying, ‘Hey, young people, vote for me, I’m going to forgive your student loans.”
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Biden (D): “Biden’s general election strategy: Less is more” [NBC]. “As President Joe Biden ramps up his re-election effort, his campaign is also scaling back how much he says on the trail, part of a larger new strategy to hone a sharper message he’ll take into the general election, according to Biden aides…. ‘There’s a strategic advantage at this point in the race to boiling down your message to the three or four most salient, compelling arguments for why President Biden should be re-elected,’ said TJ Ducklo, the Biden campaign’s senior adviser for communications. ‘That will often translate to the stump [speech] being whittled down to its sharpest, most dynamic form. That’s what you’re seeing.’ The approach also has the appearance of a strategy aimed at minimizing the potential for Biden to make mistakes in a razor-close election. Some of Biden’s verbal missteps have occurred when he’s talking at length, veers off the prepared text or answers a reporter’s question when that wasn’t part of the plan. Shorter, crisper remarks from Biden are part of his campaign’s broader strategy of having him appear more in smaller settings that the president’s aides believe serve him better than large, traditional rallies with voters.” • Massive, conventional rallies with electorate, the place there are such things as stairs, and quite a bit and quite a lot of cameras.
Biden (D): “Biden claims inflation was 9% when he took office – it was 1.4%” [FOX]. With to hand charts. • I might swear this tale additionally incorporated Biden’s declare that Trump used to be accountable for 1,000,000 Covid deaths, when (from reminiscence) 400,000 deaths took place on Trump’s monitor, and 700,000 on Biden’s. Turns out extra noteceable than the inflation fee.
Biden (D): “Appeals court denies Hunter Biden’s effort to dismiss gun charges” [Just the News]. “A federal appeals court Thursday dismissed a request from Hunter Biden to have gun charges against him dismissed before his upcoming trial, according to a new court filing…. The Trump-appointed judge disagreed with Biden’s arguments that Special Counsel David Weiss – who is also prosecuting President Biden’s son on separate tax charges in California – violated the plea deal and diversion agreement he negotiated with the the Justice Department that would have granted him broad immunities.”
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Haley (R): “Donald Trump still has a huge Nikki Haley problem” [Chicago Sun-Times]. “Despite [Haley] dropping out of the race after Super Tuesday, her ghost continues to haunt Trump in some very significant and, for him, ominous ways…. On Tuesday night, Indiana Republican primary voters unsurprisingly awarded Trump all 58 of their delegates. But somewhat surprisingly, more than 20% of them voted against him. While he handily won 78.3% of the vote, the 128,000 Republican voters who instead pulled the lever for Nikki Haley sent the presumptive nominee a serious message: ‘We are not with you.’ Lest you think that an anomaly, late last month 83.4% of Republicans in Pennsylvania voted for Trump. But significantly, 16.6%, or roughly 158,000, voted for Haley. There’s more. In Washington State, Haley won 19.3% — 150,832 votes — of the Republican primary vote. In Arizona, she won 17.8%. In Illinois, she won 14.5%. In Ohio, she won 14.4%. This was all after Haley had officially dropped out of the race…. [T]here’s evidence a single issue is helping to drive those numbers: abortion. According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll of seven battleground states, 39% of suburban women ‘cite abortion as a make-or-break issue for their vote — making it by far the most motivating issue for the group.’” • The object doesn’t display that those Haley electorate are suburban girls electorate, but it surely’s now not a stretch.
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Kennedy (I): “RFK Jr. campaign barges into Trump territory” [Washington Times]. “A Suffolk University poll released Monday showed Mr. Kennedy drawing 8% of support among registered voters. Mr. Trump was left with less than a one-half percentage lead over Mr. Biden. Mr. Kennedy’s supporters self-define as 13% liberal, 55% moderate and 27% conservative, according to the poll. ‘By that metric alone, one would think RFK draws more conservative voters away from Trump,’ said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. Mr. Kennedy’s supporters also include 14% Hispanic voters, 13% young voters and 14% independent voters. ‘Overall, RFK voters tend to be more moderate and conservative, but in the categories RFK really does well in, he tends to hurt Biden, especially among young voters and Hispanics,’ he said.”
Kennedy (I): “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to surprise his running mate with his position on abortion” [NBC]. “Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview released Wednesday that he would allow women to have abortions at full term if that was their choice, the latest answer he has given on abortion policy — and one that provoked a surprised reaction from his running mate. During an interview with podcaster Sage Steele, the former ESPN host asked Kennedy what the limit should be for women to have an abortion. ‘Should there be a limit or are you saying all the way up to full term, a woman has a right to have an abortion?’ she said. Kennedy answered that he doesn’t think anyone would want to do that at eight months of pregnancy, but abortion should be out of the hands of the government and in the hands of women…. The comments appeared to come as a surprise to Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy’s running mate. A week prior to the release of Kennedy’s conversation with Steele, Shanahan was featured in a podcast episode with the host. Steele asked Shanahan if she agreed with Kennedy’s belief that a woman should have the option to have an abortion at full term, to which Shanahan responded with surprise. ‘My understanding with Bobby’s position is that, you know, every abortion is a tragedy, is a loss of life,’ Shanahan said. ‘My understanding is that he absolutely believes in limits on abortion, and we’ve talked about this. I do not think, I don’t know where that came from.’” • Now not useful from Shanahan!
Kennedy (I): “State by state, RFK Jr. pushes for nationwide ballot access” [CNN]. “Kennedy is officially on the ballot in five states: battleground Michigan, Utah, Hawaii, Delaware and California. The campaign says it’s gathered enough signatures to put Kennedy on the ballot in two more battlegrounds, North Carolina and Nevada, as well as Ohio, Idaho, Nebraska and Iowa. The campaign has adopted a wide range of methods meant to find the easiest way to navigate the often disparate and convoluted processes to meet different ballot qualification criteria in each state. Volunteers have collected signatures outside sporting events, on college campuses, at festivals and state fairs and more across the country. The campaign has even drafted off the exposure of more prominent political events: Volunteers collected enough signatures to appear on the New Hampshire ballot by canvassing voters at polling places on the day of the Granite State’s presidential primary in January. The campaign typically aims to collect at least 60% more signatures than the required amount in each state, a campaign official told CNN, to avoid invalidated signatures undermining Kennedy’s petition. Kennedy has also reached out to minor parties with ballot eligibility in some states to circumvent the signature-gathering process altogether, making strange bedfellows of Kennedy and some fringe political groups.”
Kennedy (I): “Are R.F.K. Jr. Signature Gatherers Misleading New Yorkers for Ballot Access?” [New York Times]. “More than a half-dozen New York City residents, including two who are journalists at The New York Times and were approached randomly, have described similar encounters with signature gatherers for Mr. Kennedy in Brooklyn over the past three weeks. In each case, the resident was approached by a clipboard-wielding petitioner and asked to support ‘independent’ or ‘progressive’ candidates, or, in one case, to help get Democrats and President Biden on the ballot. In three cases, the petitioners said that they were being paid for the work, the people who were approached said; in four cases, the petitioners said they had been told by a supervisor not to show or mention Mr. Kennedy’s name. Descriptions and photographs of the petitioners suggest that they are at least four different people. The petitioners themselves could not be identified or reached for comment. In each of the encounters described to The Times, the names of Mr. Kennedy and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, were hidden by the paper being folded. Only the slate of electors — the little-known people designated to vote for the candidates in the Electoral College — was visible in fine print at the top.” The tale features a photograph. Extra: “Ira Pearlstein, a lawyer, said he was approached twice near Barclays Center in Brooklyn with a petition folded to hide Mr. Kennedy’s name at the top.Credit…Ira Pearlstein. Most of the New Yorkers who spoke with The Times have experience in law or politics, including two who have worked in Democratic politics.” • Oh.
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“Trump team throws out GOP plan and builds a ‘leaner’ 2024 operation” [WaPo]. “Trump’s 2024 campaign has traded Star Wars metaphors for talk of a “leaner” and “more efficient” operation, with much less actual property, fewer workers and bigger dependence on outdoor teams…. The actual RNC plan for the circumstance of Georgia, reviewed by means of The Washington Submit, known as for hiring 12 regional ground administrators in April and 40 ground organizers by means of the tip of Would possibly, along with sooner or later opening 20 places of work and a population middle within the School Ground, a most commonly Lightless suburb of Atlanta. Arizona used to be slotted to obtain six regional ground administrators, seven places of work and 23 ground organizers by means of the tip of Would possibly. Celebration leaders had drafted related highway maps for alternative battleground states ahead of Ronna McDaniel used to be changed as chairwoman. The RNC’s plan in the beginning of this occasion used to be additionally keen on early balloting, the plans display, even though the Depot Your Vote web page — as soon as the center piece of the aim — has been offline for weeks because the birthday party retools this system. “It is full speed ahead,” stated James Blair, the nationwide political director for each the Trump marketing campaign and the RNC. ‘Stay tuned for more on the program.’… Trump’s aides say they are going to manufacture a extra narrowly centered volunteer ground program — the usage of their a success aim within the Iowa caucuses as a template — age profiting from a up to date Federal Election Fee ruling that may let them at once coordinate message and script plans with outdoor teams who’ve paid canvassing reminiscent of door-knocking. The operation is being run by means of LaCivita, Blair and Alex Latcham, a former White Space deputy political director for Trump.”
“The secret to Republican victory in 2024 is hiding in plain sight” [Newt Gingrich, FOX]. “In fact, it hurts the Republican cause – and the elections of President Donald Trump and House and Senate Republicans – to focus narrowly on Nov. 5. The first election dates are Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and then Sept. 20 in Minnesota and South Dakota. The next election days are Sept. 23 in Mississippi, and Sept. 24 in Missouri. There are 43 other states and the District of Columbia that follow with their early voting dates. Only Alabama and New Hampshire do not have early voting…. Here’s an example of why this matters: In 2022, the Republican Senate campaign in Pennsylvania was focused on Election Day in November. The campaign did not begin advertising until long after early voting had started. As a result, 40% of Pennsylvanians had already cast their ballots before the first major Republican ad had aired. This pattern was not unique to that race…. The Democrats have focused on early voting in large part because they want to be able to identify everyone who has not yet turned out. That way, they can focus on phone calls, direct mail, text messages, and even visits to remind those voters that they should vote. They keep it going until the people vote, and their name comes off the list…. This long campaign approach has proven for the last decade that it is more likely to win close elections than the focus on the federally designated official Election Day.” • I dislike this such a lot (and I additionally dislike Gingrich being incrible. If those are the foundations….).
Clinton Legacy
Now not certain who Clinton helps right here. On no account Biden:
Hillary Clinton, on Morning Joe, says younger critics of Israel deficit wisdom of historical past on Israeli-Palestinian struggle:
“If Yasser Arafat had accepted [the BillClinton/EhudBarak peace proposal at Camp David], there would have been a Palestinian state now for about 24 years.” %.twitter.com/ormxIjGVi5
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) Would possibly 9, 2024
Clinton’s (self-serving) perspectives on Camp David are contested, to mention the least.
2020 Submit Mortem
“The long, strange political shadow of 2020” [Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin]. “[I]t might seem strange that Donald Trump is reprising Ronald Reagan by literally asking voters whether they are better off than they were four years ago. Four years ago was 2020, one of the most miserable years in modern American history…. But while Democrats like to treat this as a sort of ‘gotcha’, I’m not so sure it’s a bad strategy. One theory, as Paul Krugman writes, is that Trump hopes voters will remember the ‘before times’ — that is, before the pandemic. I have an alternative theory, however: Trump is happy enough to let voters think about 2020 because he thinks they’ll blame Biden and Democrats for the things they didn’t like about it. That’s completely unfair to Biden, of course, who wasn’t president yet. But politics isn’t always so literal. Even with Trump in charge, 2020 was probably the most left-wing moment in the US in my lifetime.1 Since then, the share of voters who say Democrats are too liberal has risen by 7 points. And Trump is counting on a continued backlash against the left. … Consider what were perhaps the three most important political questions at the time: first, the fiscal response to the pandemic; second, the public health response; and third, the protests and accompanying ‘racial reckoning.’ For the most part, it was the left’s preferences that prevailed on these.” • Liberals, Nate. Liberals. Now not the left.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Lysistrata” (podcast) [In Our Time]. “Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristophanes’ comedy in which the women of Athens and Sparta, led by Lysistrata, secure peace in the long-running war between them by staging a sex strike. To the men in the audience in 411BC, the idea that peace in the Peloponnesian War could be won so easily was ridiculous and the thought that their wives could have so much power over them was even more so. However Aristophanes’ comedy also has the women seizing the treasure in the Acropolis that was meant to fund more fighting in an emergency, a fund the Athenians had recently had to draw on. They were in a perilous position and, much as they might laugh at Aristophanes’ jokes, they knew there were real concerns about the actual cost of the war in terms of wealth and manpower.”
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 aim. To replace any access, do really feel detached to touch me on the cope with given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the matter order. 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 experiences); 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 (Govt of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Vaccines
“This nasal spray could be a game-changer in COVID-19 prevention” [KnowRidge]. “Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made an exciting breakthrough that could transform how we protect against COVID-19. Their research focuses on a new substance called a ‘stapled lipopeptide’ that could be used as a nasal spray to prevent or treat the virus. This discovery has been so impactful that it has already moved into human trials. A stapled lipopeptide is essentially a small piece of the virus’s structure, modified to be more stable and able to block the virus from entering cells. This stability means it doesn’t need to be kept cold, making it easier to use and distribute than some current COVID-19 vaccines. The idea behind this new approach is simple yet powerful. Unlike vaccines, which teach the immune system to fight the virus, this nasal spray attacks the virus directly. This makes it a potentially excellent option for people whose immune systems are weak and can’t handle the virus on their own. Loren Walensky, the lead researcher of this study, has spent nearly two decades working on stapled peptides. His experience has been crucial in steering this research from a concept to a potential real-world solution. Before COVID-19, his team was already exploring how to use these compounds against other viruses like HIV and RSV. The research team’s recent experiments in hamsters have been promising. They found that animals treated with the nasal spray didn’t just avoid severe sickness; they also had lower amounts of the virus in their bodies. This suggests that the spray not only protects individual animals from getting sick but could also reduce the spread of the virus. Given the way COVID-19 has evolved, with new variants emerging, there’s a constant race to update vaccines. But the part of the virus targeted by this new treatment has stayed the same even as other parts have changed. This could mean that the nasal spray remains effective without needing frequent updates. This potential treatment comes from a collaboration between Dana-Farber and Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories.” • Attention-grabbing, however wait. “Loren Walensky.” Rochelle’s husband?! That surely wasn’t on my Bingo card…
Variants
“What You Need to Know About FLiRT, the Latest COVID Variants” [AARP]. “No doubt we’ve seen some strange nicknames for variants throughout the COVID-19 pandemic — Arcturus, Pirola and Eris, to name a few. According to an explainer posted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, FLiRT is an acronym for some of the variants’ spike protein mutations. The FLiRT variants, which are still in the omicron family, appear to be highly transmissible, meaning they spread easily. However so far, they do not appear to cause more severe disease, Schaffner says.” • The “strange nicknames” had been in truth astronomical phrases advanced by means of a citizen scientists; however now that the ID goons at Infectious Sicknesses Family of The united states have taken over, we get cutesy, harmless-seeming names like FLiRT. “Flirt” with what? Dying and incapacity? [Pounds head on desk.]
“New COVID ‘FLiRT’ variants are spreading nationwide” [Philadelphia Inquirer]. “While symptoms and severity seem to be about the same as previous COVID strains, the new FLiRT variants appear to be more transmissible, said infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy. ‘A new, more contagious variant is out there,’ said Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University’s Institute for Global Health and a professor of infectious diseases at the Feinberg School of Medicine. ‘COVID-19 is still with us, and compared to flu and RSV, COVID-19 can cause significant problems off-season.’” What “off-season”? Covid isn’t seasonal! Extra: “One FLiRT variant, KP.2, is estimated to account for roughly a quarter of recent COVID cases, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from late April.” Negative, it hasn’t. That’s the type [pounds head on desk].
Sequelae: Covid
“I’ve Noticed Something Strange About All the Thirtysomething Men I’m Hooking Up With. What Gives?” [Salon]. From the “How to Do It” recommendation column: “[M]y question mostly revolves around erectile dysfunction in the 30-plus age group. Since my divorce, I’ve met a few guys with mixed intentions (initially just for hook-ups and now I’m looking for something more long-term again). I’ve slept with four men and three of them have had an issue with getting or staying hard.” And the solution comprises: “(One weird, and relatively new, factor that could potentially be at play is an apparent link between COVID-19 and erectile dysfunction. There is no conclusive research yet, but one study found a significant association between prior COVID-19 infection and a new diagnosis of ED.)” • The commercials — and now not for vaccines, that have their very own vascular issues, however respirators — incrible themselves. “Is wearing a mask too hard for you?” And so on. 3M, get to it!
“Long COVID May Have Long-Term Impact on Surgery” [American College of Surgeons]. “More than 77% of people in the US had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 as of 2022. Of these, approximately 30% of survivors report having persistent symptoms classified as long COVID2 and 11% describe persistent symptoms at 6 months.” I reiterate than an considerable proportion of the 23% of public now not inflamed are running dehydrated to stick that means, albeit invisibly. Extra: “[L]ong COVID, also referred to as postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, will remain a medical concern for the foreseeable future…. Given the risks associated with delirium and postoperative neurocognitive disorder, the preoperative cognitive impairment in long COVID patients may be a problem that obscures a clinician’s ability to recognize subtle symptoms and properly care for patients undergoing elective surgery. Recent studies have suggested that long COVID may be caused by a prolonged, subclinical infection leading to the establishment of a viral reservoir, potentially in the gut, that can modulate host immune responses and contribute to persistent cognitive symptoms. Surgery in such patients could result in unintentional spread of the SARS-CoV-2 viral reservoir to distal tissues such as the lung, where infection can cause severe damage.” • Ulp.
“An FDA-approved assay platform can detect biomarkers of neuronal and glial injury in the blood of COVID-19 patients” (preprint) [medRxiv]. “Employing assays approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to assist in detection of brain injury in mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, this study demonstrated that the astroglial protein, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and the neuronal protein, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1) were positively associated with age in COVID-19 patients. Controlling for age, UCH-L1 and GFAP were significantly elevated in COVID-19 patients compared to non-COVID-19 controls, and UCH-L1, but not GFAP, was elevated in patients with neurological alterations. Data from this study are also compared to historical data on levels of UCH-L1 and GFAP in brain injured and healthy normal patients. These data support further studies of an FDA approved assay format that could facilitate timely development, validation, and FDA approval of blood tests to detect neuronal and glial cell injuries following infection by SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, appropriately validated blood tests could detect brain injury originating from any systemic pathogen.”
Elite Maleficence
“Airborne pathogens: controlling words won’t control transmission” [Trisha Greenhalgh, C Raina MacIntyre, Mark Ungrin, Julia M Wright, The Lancet]. “WHO has proposed new terminology for ‘pathogens that transmit through the air.’… Clear and accurate communication about how respiratory pathogens spread is of the utmost importance globally. Confusion on this topic abounds, especially in relation to COVID-19, but there is a simple explanation. Strong and consistent evidence for a predominantly airborne mode of transmission emerged early in the pandemic but was denied or downplayed by WHO and national public health bodies for years… This new WHO report appears to assume that because some infectious disease experts believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is airborne only ‘situationally’ (ie, under unusual conditions), the issue is therefore scientifically complex. An alternative explanation, which has been extensively discussed in the peer-reviewed literature, is that dominant voices in the infection prevention and control community did not grasp the basics of airborne transmission and failed to listen to people who did… The WHO report states that ‘it was important to balance scientific insights with availability, access, affordability and other practical realities in resource-limited settings.’ We agree, but affordability and availability challenges will not be solved by calling airborne transmission by another name. The report concludes: ‘[C]onsideration for use of the phrase ‘transmission through the air’… will require specific socialization and training to be understood by both health care workers and the general public.’ To have these new terms be taken up by various institutions and scholars, as the authors of the report propose, will be complex and unrealistic, requiring extensive retraining and the rewriting of hundreds of documents. Pragmatically, a new set of terms will add to existing confusion, not reduce it. Our time, energy, and resources would be better spent proceeding with long-established terms (eg, airborne and aerosol) that are well understood across the natural sciences to advance understanding of airborne transmission among clinicians and the public.” • Simply every other occupation of sabotage by means of WHO? (As I display right here, WHO’s terminology has already been rendered out of date by means of advances in aerosol science.)
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Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m getting to need to reconsider this fantastically formatted desk. Seems like Biobot knowledge nonetheless purposes, CDC variant knowledge purposes, ER visits are useless, Unused York hospitalization appears to be useless since 5/1 [No, it’s alive!], when CDC banned necessary medical institution knowledge assortment, Walgreens purposes, Cleveland Health facility purposes, CDC traveler’s knowledge purposes, Unused York Instances loss of life knowledge has banned. (Be aware that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each long past unwell). Preferably I might substitute hospitalization and loss of life knowledge, however I’m now not certain how. I may additionally amplify the wastewater division to incorporate (yech) Verily knowledge, H5N1 if I will be able to get it. Tips and resources welcome.
TABLE 1: Day-to-day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts unused nowadays; all others aren’t 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 a long way above valleys underneath Trump. Now not a admirable victory. Be aware additionally the branch “under the curve,” but even so having a look at peaks. That branch is greater underneath Biden than underneath Trump, and it kind of feels to be emerging incessantly if erratically.
[2] (Biobot) Negative backward revisons….
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, for the reason that the type totally overlooked KP.2.
[4] (ER) CDC turns out to have killed this off, for the reason that hyperlink is damaged, I believe in partiality of this factor. I will be able to attempt to verify. UPDATE Sure, let fall it to CDC to execute a web page, and nearest announce it used to be archived a date then. And heaven forfend CDC must give an explanation for the place to progress to get similar knowledge, if any. I appreciated the ER knowledge, as it gave the impression in point of fact dehydrated to recreation.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) The information is now updating once more. I guess to a tame epidemiologist it looks as if “endemicity,” however to me it looks as if every other tranche of lethality.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless unwell. “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) Negligible uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Flattens.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) JN.1 dominates totally. Nonetheless incorrect point out of KP.2
[11] Seems like the Instances isn’t reporting loss of life knowledge any further? Possibly I wish to progress again to The Economist….
Stats Attend to
There aren’t any statistics of hobby nowadays.
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Commodities: Dr. Copper:
Stanley Druckemiller thinks copper is a good-looking easy tale.
I clearly consider him.
Right here’s the total quote:
“Copper is a good-looking easy tale. Takes about 12 years, greenfield to create copper, and you were given EVs, the grid, knowledge facilities, and imagine it or now not munitions.… %.twitter.com/5mE50dpms1
— Brandon Beylo (@marketplunger1) Would possibly 9, 2024
Tech: “Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush’ ad that ‘missed the mark’” [The Verge]. • Fairly the opposite; the advert strike the mark exactly.
Tech: “Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claims” [The Verge]. “The Department of Justice is looking into whether Tesla committed securities and wire fraud around its self-driving vehicle claims, Reuters reports today, citing three sources familiar with the matter. The investigation, which was first reported in October 2022 but has been going on since at least late 2021, involves federal prosecutors in Washington and San Francisco who are examining whether Tesla executives misled consumers, investors, and regulators by making unsupported claims about its autonomous capabilities. Now, it appears that investigators are zeroing in on specific charges against the company: securities and wire fraud.”
Tech: “Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception” [Guardian]. “The analysis, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers, identifies wide-ranging instances of AI systems double-crossing opponents, bluffing and pretending to be human. One system even altered its behaviour during mock safety tests, raising the prospect of auditors being lured into a false sense of security. ‘As the deceptive capabilities of AI systems become more advanced, the dangers they pose to society will become increasingly serious,’ said Dr Peter Park, an AI existential safety researcher at MIT and author of the research. Park was prompted to investigate after Meta, which owns Facebook, developed a program called Cicero that performed in the top 10% of human players at the world conquest strategy game Diplomacy. Meta stated that Cicero had been trained to be ‘largely honest and helpful’ and to ‘never intentionally backstab’ its human allies. ‘It was very rosy language, which was suspicious because backstabbing is one of the most important concepts in the game,’ said Park. Park and colleagues sifted through publicly available data and identified multiple instances of Cicero telling premeditated lies, colluding to draw other players into plots and, on one occasion, justifying its absence after being rebooted by telling another player: ‘I am on the phone with my girlfriend.’ ‘We found that Meta’s AI had learned to be a master of deception,’ said Park.” • Meta? Truly?d
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Nowadays’s Worry & Greed Index: 47 Impartial (earlier akin: 44 Worry) [CNN]. One future in the past: 40 (Worry). (0 is Terminating Worry; 100 is Terminating Greed). Closing up to date Would possibly 10 at 1:50:45 PM ET.
Guillotine Attend to
“Palm Beach in uproar as invading ‘new money’ transplants clash with old guard retirees and snowbirds over first luxury new condos in decades” [Daily Mail]. • So Palm Seaside is on upper grassland, nearest?
Elegance Conflict
“Richest Americans Now Pay Less Tax Than Working Class in Historical First” [Newsweek]. “In the 1960s, the 400 richest Americans paid more than half of their income in taxes, according to the Times. By 2018, America’s wealthiest individuals paid just 23 percent of their income in taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom half of income earners paid 24 percent of their income in taxes. Today, America’s richest people control a greater share of the country’s wealth than during the ‘Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers,’ the [New York Times] said, referring to a period of unprecedented wealth concentration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is partly due to significant decreases in taxes on the rich. Wealthy individuals once paid high taxes on corporate profits, which were typically their primary source of income, and estate taxes on wealth passed down to their heirs. However, these taxes have been significantly reduced in recent years—the top corporate tax rate in the U.S. was reduced from 35 percent to 21 percent in 2018, and the estate tax now generates only a quarter of the tax revenues it raised in the 1970s, the Times noted. Another factor is that many modern billionaires live off their wealth rather than their incomes, unlike most ordinary Americans.” • Federal taxes don’t capitaltreasury Federal spending, however that doesn’t heartless that Federal taxes can’t be worn to throw a large web over the affluent prosperous (IIRC, Yves recommends inheritance tax as being least gameable).
Information of the Stressed
“Revolutionary new drone feeds on electricity from power lines and flies forever” [BGR]. “Engineers working at the University of Southern Denmark have created a vampire drone capable of living forever. The drone is able to fly for extended periods of time without landing, as it can take breaks and leech power from nearby power lines to recharge its onboard batteries. The maneuver is made possible thanks to a docking mechanism, several sensors, and an AI system loaded on board. This allows the drone to recognize power lines and then attach to them each time it needs to recharge its batteries. The team told Fast Company that the vampire drone can ‘essentially live on the grid and operate completely autonomously for extended periods of time,’ all without needing a human to babysit it. Apparently, the concept of leeching power from power lines has been explored in one capacity or another since 2017, when Emad Ebeid, a professor at the University of Southern Denmark, first proposed the idea.” Extra: “The team eventually settled on approaching the wire from the bottom, as it lowered the risk of collision. Then, the engineers fixed grippers to the drone, allowing it to attach itself to the power line and then securely attach itself to the wire. From there, the drone can recharge its batteries, and then unclamp itself once the batteries are fully charged.”
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