By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are actually a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
2024
Lower than a half a yr to go!
RCP Ballot Averages, Could 10:
* * * Trump (R) (Bragg/Merchan): Pursuant to yesterday’s ethics submitting by Stefanik alleging Merchan violated New York’s part 100.3(E)(1)(d)(iii), provided that his daughter is a Democrat marketing consultant, I hate to cite Laura Loomer, however since she’s supplying documentation:
EXCLUSIVE EXPOSE:
🚨🚨🚨NEW YORK CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN SENDING MONEY TO JUDGE MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER’S PERSONAL HOME RESIDENCE IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AND DECEPTIVELY DISTORTING FEC RECORDS TO COVER UP PAYMENTS TO LOREN MERCHAN’S COMPANY🚨🚨🚨
I used to be looking out by means of… https://t.co/R9U8sM2YQE pic.twitter.com/Ssv2PicORe
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) Could 17, 2024
The thought happens — pure hypothesis — that laundering cash by means of Democrat consultants for companies rendered can be a method for the spooks to, nicely, categorical their gratitude for sure outcomes.
* * * Trump (R) (Willis/McAfee): “Fani Willis and choose presiding over Georgia Trump election case defeat challengers” [Associated Press]. “Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who introduced a sprawling racketeering case towards former President Donald Trump and others, has gained the Democratic major in her bid for reelection. Willis defeated progressive lawyer Christian Sensible Smith within the major election and is now set to face off towards Republican Courtney Kramer within the fall. Willis instructed reporters after her victory that the voters despatched a message that ‘folks desire a DA that’s simply, that treats all people equally and that works arduous, and so they know that they’ve that in me.’… In the meantime, Fulton County Superior Court docket Decide Scott McAfee, the choose who was randomly assigned to preside over the election interference case, additionally fended off a challenger, profitable a nonpartisan election to maintain his seat.” • If the Democrats can’t throw Willis out after her blunders within the apocalyptic combat towards fascism….
* * * Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “One Incriminating Footnote in Bombshell Trump Categorised Docs Report” [The New Republic]. “The 2023 opinion from U.S. District Decide Beryl Howell reveals that an unnamed witness scanned and saved confidential paperwork onto a laptop computer owned by Save America PAC, a political motion committee fashioned by Trump in 2020. The element sheds new mild on the depths to which Trump consciously violated federal regulation…. On January 6, 2023—two years later—Trump’s lawyer notified the federal government of what this unnamed witness had completed and offered a thumb drive of the information to the federal government. This revelation got here 4 months after the FBI had already executed a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property to retrieve categorized supplies Trump had illegally stored…. The opinion by Howell, who presided over the case in 2023, additionally revealed that the FBI found extra categorized paperwork in Trump’s bed room months after the Mar-a-Lago raid that turned up packing containers of categorized supplies saved in his toilet.” • Footnote 11, web page 36.
Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Florida listening to in Trump categorized paperwork case devolves into shouting match” [CNN]. “The heated arguments performed out in a morning continuing in Fort Pierce, Florida, that had been scheduled for Walt Nauta, one in all former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants, to current arguments that particular counsel Jack Smith’s staff had selectively and vindictively introduced prices towards him. However the listening to rapidly diverted right into a longstanding disagreement over an August 2022 assembly between prosecutor Jay Bratt and Nauta’s protection lawyer, Stanley Woodward. Woodward has claimed in courtroom proceedings and filings that Bratt tried to strain him into convincing Nauta to cooperate towards Trump by threatening to have an effect on a possible judgeship nomination…. Nauta claims that he was criminally charged within the case as retaliation for declining to cooperate with the Justice Division’s investigation into the previous president’s retention of categorized paperwork at his property. ‘I had been advisable for a judgeship, that’s past dispute,’ Woodward mentioned Wednesday. ‘There was a folder about protection counsel on the desk’ throughout that assembly, he mentioned, claiming Bratt referenced that judgeship suggestion. ‘I believe the implication was that I used to be to journey and persuade Mr. Nauta to cooperate with the investigation, and if I didn’t that, there can be penalties,’ Woodward mentioned. Prosecutor David Harbach then rose and accused Woodward of participating in ‘procedural gamesmanship’ by making a ‘rubbish argument’ concerning the assembly. ‘Mr. Woodward’s story of what occurred at that assembly is a fantasy,’ Harbach shouted, banging his hand on the lectern in entrance of him. ‘It didn’t occur.’” • I’m inclined to imagine Woodward (bear in mind, stopping Trump from taking workplace is existential for Democrats, so something goes). However as far as I can inform from the protection, there’s no contemporaneous report of the occasion, so we’re in “he mentioned/he mentioned” territory.
* * * Haley (R): “Nikki Haley says she is going to vote for Trump, ending months of silence” [The Hill]. Haley: “I put my priorities on a president who’s going to have the backs of our allies and maintain our enemies to account, who would safe the border, no extra excuses, a president who would assist capitalism and freedom, a president who understands we want much less debt, no more debt. Trump has not been excellent on these insurance policies. I’ve made that clear many, many instances. However Biden has been a disaster. So I shall be voting for Trump. Having mentioned that, I stand by what I mentioned in my suspension speech. Trump can be sensible to achieve out to the tens of millions of people that voted for me and proceed to assist me and never assume that they’re simply going to be with him. And I genuinely hope he does that.”
* * *
Scratch out “cat” and write in “canine”….
Biden (D): “Biden Can’t Blow the Debates” [Mona Charen, The Bulwark]. “It was a reduction due to this fact, when, after the New York Instances/Siena ballot dropped displaying Trump forward in 5 swing states, Biden stepped up and challenged Trump to 2 debates—an indication that he acknowledged the necessity to shake issues up. Debates with a ‘f— moron’ (to cite a former secretary of state below Trump) should not perfect, however there aren’t a whole lot of good decisions for the time being. Our destiny as a rustic is dependent upon getting the eye of voters who would moderately not take into consideration politics. Debates, as silly and dismaying as they’ve develop into, could also be the very best car to safe their eyeballs…. Trump and his allies have manner oversold the Biden-is-senile message. A justifiable share of voters have come to suppose that he’s not simply outdated, however drooling and unable to operate. The reality is that, although his voice is getting croaky, he messes up phrases and names generally, and he walks fairly stiffly, he’s very a lot compos mentis. He has demonstrated this repeatedly—as when he traveled to Kyiv, or to Jerusalem, or when he delivered his State of the Union message full with unscripted moments. …. This isn’t to recommend that each one Biden must do is keep vertical for 90 minutes. If Biden has a critical mind freeze or incoherent digression, he and we’re in horrible bother…. Nearly all of the American folks have by no means appreciated Trump. Biden has given himself two alternatives to persuade them that granting Trump one other time period, nevertheless tepid their emotions concerning the incumbent, can be a catastrophe.”
Biden (D): “CIA briefing triggered investigators to cease probing Hunter Biden’s Hollywood lawyer: Whistleblower” [Washington Examiner]. “The CIA gave a briefing to the Division of Justice in the summertime of 2021 that prompted the division to close down any pursuit of Hunter Biden’s lawyer and buddy Kevin Morris, in line with an affidavit printed by Congress on Wednesday. Whistleblower Gary Shapley, a senior IRS investigator, wrote within the affidavit that whereas he was engaged on the DOJ’s broader inquiry into Biden, he was unexpectedly instructed by a prosecutor that he couldn’t use Morris as a witness. Former Assistant U.S. Lawyer Lesley Wolf, a Delaware-based prosecutor who was closely concerned within the Biden investigation, gave the instruction to Shapley after she had been ‘summoned’ to the CIA headquarters in Virginia to obtain the briefing, Shapley mentioned. ‘AUSA Wolf acknowledged that they have been offered a categorized briefing in relation to Mr. Morris and consequently we may not pursue him as a witness,’ Shapley wrote. Shapley mentioned he repeatedly requested extra info from Wolf however that he was stonewalled. Morris, a Hollywood leisure lawyer, grew to become a monetary savior to Biden when the primary son was drowning in years’ price of unpaid tax payments in 2020, in line with an indictment towards Biden and testimony Morris gave to Congress in January.” • Pricey Hunter!
Biden (D): “Unique: Largest lease will increase are in swing states. Will it spell bother for Biden?” [USA Today]. “As housing prices proceed to be the most important driver of core inflation, renters are feeling more and more disillusioned with politicians. In some swing states, that are vital to President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, rental prices have greater than doubled up to now 4 years. In truth, 6 out of the highest 10 markets and 34 of the highest 100 markets with the most important will increase are in swing states, in line with a USA TODAY evaluation of knowledge obtained completely from Hire.com.” • Hmm.
* * * Kennedy (I): “A Working Mate’s Historical past: $1 Billion, Cocaine, a Fling With Elon Musk” [New York Times]. So Shanahan is a billionaire, not less than in line with sources: “Ms. Shanahan has a fortune of greater than $1 billion that stems largely from her divorce settlement final yr with Sergey Brin, a founding father of Google, whose internet price exceeds $145 billion, three folks with data of her funds mentioned.” • First hit piece. Shanahan has actually lived a vivid life, although maybe much less so than Hunter Biden. Then once more, Hunter Biden isn’t operating for Vice President….
Kennedy (I): “Key RFK Jr. adviser leaves marketing campaign alleging ‘hateful and divisive environment’” [The Hill]. “A senior adviser to impartial candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced she was leaving the marketing campaign Wednesday, citing an ‘more and more hateful and divisive environment,’ a blow to the third-party bid because it steps up poll entry efforts nationwide. Angela Stanton King, the marketing campaign’s head of Black voter outreach, mentioned Kennedy’s marketing campaign ‘not aligns with my values.’ ‘After a lot reflection, I’ve determined to step away from the political theater,’ Stanton King wrote on social media. ‘I’ll proceed to advise RFK Jr. on key neighborhood points.’ ‘Now, it’s time for me to pursue peace and absolutely dedicate myself to nonprofit work, supporting pregnant girls and returning residents,’ she continued. ‘This new chapter excites me, as I give attention to making a tangible distinction the place it’s wanted most.’ Stanton King was a key Kennedy adviser on the problem of abortion, anticipated to be a serious focus in battleground states this November. Critics have repeatedly scrutinized Kennedy and operating mate Nicole Shanahan’s conflicting feedback on abortion rights. Kennedy, who beforehand mentioned there must be no federal restriction on abortion care entry, modified his place earlier this month to assist some restrictions after urging from Shanahan and Stanton King.” • Hiring from NGOs, all the time a priority….
* * * OH: “Ohio prepares to go away Biden and Harris off presidential poll as Democrats seek for solutions” [Washington Examiner]. “President Joe Biden is about to not seem on Ohio’s presidential poll in November, the state’s secretary of state confirmed. In a letter to Ohio Democratic Chairwoman Liz Walters on Tuesday, Secretary of State Frank LaRose mentioned, ‘In the present day, the Speaker of the Ohio Home instructed members of the media there wouldn’t be a legislative answer,’ including he was ‘obligation sure to instruct boards of elections to start making ready ballots that don’t embrace the Democratic Celebration’s nominees for president and vice President of the USA.’ … The Democratic Nationwide Conference is not going to affirm Biden because the nominee till Aug. 19, conflicting with an Ohio regulation requiring presidential candidates to certify their nomination to the secretary of state’s workplace 90 days earlier than the election. …. The Democratic Celebration may nonetheless resolve the battle by rescheduling its conference or by submitting a lawsuit arguing that an arbitrary and lengthy deadline barring Biden violates the First and Fourteenth amendments. Biden misplaced Ohio to Trump by 8% in 2020.”
OR: “Progressives flop in Oregon: 5 takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries” [Politico]. “The left took it on the chin in Oregon on Tuesday. Main progressive figures had mobilized in a secure blue congressional district — and their most popular choose misplaced. Institution Democrats, in the meantime, efficiently blocked a extra liberal candidate from profitable the nomination for a key battleground seat. Which means Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s sister gained’t be becoming a member of the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in Washington subsequent yr. And that nationwide Democrats get their candidate of option to tackle Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer — and keep away from a rematch of a race they misplaced in 2022.”
* * * “2024 Race: Biden-Trump Matchup Margin Razor Skinny With Practically 1 In 5 Voters Doubtless To Change Their Minds, Quinnipiac College Nationwide Ballot Finds; Extra Than 7 In 10 Voters Plan To Watch June Debate” [Quinnipiac University Poll]. “When impartial and Inexperienced Celebration candidates are added to the presidential matchup, Biden receives 41 % assist, Trump receives 38 % assist, impartial candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. receives 14 % assist, Inexperienced Celebration candidate Jill Stein receives 2 % assist, and impartial candidate Cornel West receives 2 % assist. There isn’t a clear chief in both of those matchups because the leads are throughout the margin of error, making the race too near name… Amongst voters supporting Biden, 15 % say it’s both very possible (3 %) or considerably possible (12 %) that they are going to change their minds, whereas 84 % say it’s both not so possible (9 %) or not going in any respect (75 %). Amongst voters supporting Trump, 8 % say it’s considerably possible that they are going to change their minds, whereas 92 % say it’s both not so possible (13 %) or not going in any respect (79 %). Amongst voters supporting Kennedy, 52 % say it’s both very possible (11 %) or considerably possible (41 %) that they are going to change their minds, whereas 46 % say it’s both not so possible (16 %) or not going in any respect (30 %).”
Republican Funhouse
“Excessive Proper State Freedom Caucuses Create Huge Complications for Republicans” [Exposed by CMD]. “In Wyoming, a far-right faction of GOP state legislators cut up with the remainder of the occasion this yr in unsuccessfully preventing to forestall the households of law enforcement officials killed whereas on obligation from receiving a rise in demise advantages — from 60% to 90% of the officer’s wage — as a result of it value an excessive amount of. That is in a state the place a complete of 62 officers have died within the line of obligation since 1877. In Idaho, members of its Freedom Caucus ousted the Republican Home Majority Chief in February for being insufficiently conservative. In Missouri, 5 GOP members of the state legislature filibustered the state Senate earlier this month in an unsuccessful try to defund the state’s Medicaid program. In truth, this yr the Freedom Caucus there held up a lot laws with procedural ploys that the nonpartisan Missouri Impartial, which experiences on state authorities, referred to as the legislative session the least productive in a long time. These far-right Republican state legislative teams are associates of the State Freedom Caucus Community (SFCN)…. ‘In each state the place they seem, Freedom caucuses trigger complications for the so-called institution Republicans in cost,’ in line with a current piece in Governing. SFCN lists 11 states with caucuses, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, and till just lately, the Middle for Media and Democracy (CMD) tracked energetic caucuses in Mississippi and Nevada.” • I don’t blame them for performing on their (screwball) beliefs. I do blame the left for being unable to do the identical factor.
Democrats en Déshabillé
So I believe it’s honest to say that the Democrats, high to backside, are of the view that Trump can not presumably be allowed to take workplace, it doesn’t matter what. We’d not, then, taking a look at a transition from one occasion to a different, however at one thing existential. The place to go from there, I don’t know, besides to notice that of their management of the press, and of their alliance with the spooks, the Democrats are nicely geared up to do the needful, moreso than the Republicans (who, thus far, lack the “mass-based occasion of dedicated nationalist militants, working in uneasy however efficient collaboration with conventional elites” that will in any other case present their countermove). I think about all that is being gamed out someplace within the Beltway proper now, simply as in 2020 (“Challenge Transition Integrity“), actually by Democrats, presumably by Republicans.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“THIRTEEN conservative counties in Oregon approve poll measures for SECESSION vote that will see them be part of non-woke Idaho – as they concern record of calls for” [Daily Mail]. “The proposal seeks to maneuver the Oregon border 200 miles to the west, which means that 14 counties and a number of other partial counties would fall below Idaho state strains. Organizers behind the Larger Idaho motion say east Oregonians are being alienated by the state’s progressive insurance policies which they blame for prime crime charges. They declare a transfer to Idaho would enable residents to benefit from decrease taxation and supply higher illustration and governance. Measure 7-86, because it was recognized, handed by 53 % in Criminal County within the newest enhance to the Larger Idaho marketing campaign. Nonetheless, the vote shouldn’t be legislatively binding and simply means residents are in favor of informing state and federal representatives that they assist negotiations to annex a part of Oregon.” • Helpful map of “Larger Idaho”:
Festung Squillionaire, extra prefer it.
“Gen Z’s pessimism fueled by melancholy, social media use: Knowledgeable” [NewsNation]. • Not by 1,000,000 useless from a pandemic, awful wages, and the lack to begin a household or personal a home. No no!
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the deal with given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. 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 (Authorities of Canada).
Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Maskstravaganza
“College of Otago’s Michael Baker amongst well being consultants calling for higher face masks use in New Zealand after worldwide research on effectiveness” [Newshub]. One of many co-authors of Greenhalgh et al.’s masks paper:
Prof Baker desires to see higher an infection prevention and management insurance policies reinstated, particularly in 4 areas:
“Updating our insurance policies will enable all New Zealanders to learn from the efficient and versatile safety that masks present towards seasonal, epidemic and pandemic infections,” he mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
Denial and Cope
The circle of dwelling your life:
Testing and Monitoring
Hypothesis on Biobot:
I think they’re in a demise spiral. Their “replace” this week, which is 2 days later than common, simply exhibits a graph that’s similar to final week’s. They didn’t report this week’s real-time wastewater ranges, so I bodily measured them for the previous 6 weeks. The values are…
— Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) Could 23, 2024
I hope this isn’t true. If it is true, it could be completely in paradigm for CDC and our political economic system: A crapified system owned and run by an enormous monopoly.
Sequelae: Covid
“Unraveling the enigma of lengthy COVID: novel features in pathogenesis, analysis, and remedy protocols” (summary solely) [Inflammopharmacology]. From the Summary: “The paper introduces a unified concept of lengthy COVID, detailing a novel pathophysiological framework that interlinks persistent SARS-CoV-2 an infection, autoimmunity, and systemic vascular pathology. We posit a mannequin the place viral reservoirs, immune dysregulation, and genetic predispositions converge to perpetuate illness. It challenges prevailing hypotheses with new proof, suggesting modern diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The paper goals to shift the paradigm in lengthy COVID analysis by offering an integrative perspective that encapsulates the multifaceted nature of the situation. We clarify the immunological mechanisms, hypercoagulability states, and that feed NeuroCOVID in sufferers with lengthy COVID.” Yikes. This tweet quotes the textual content:
“The nervous system, significantly the mind, can develop into contaminated by SARS-CoV-2 early in the midst of COVID-19 by way of viral entry by means of the cribriform plate situated on the higher a part of the nostril..
this route is extra ominous than beforehand thought.
The pits of the cribriform…— Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) (@Yash25571056) Could 23, 2024
Lambert right here: Affected person readers, I’m going to should rethink this fantastically formatted desk. Biobot knowledge is gone, CDC variant knowledge capabilities, ER visits are useless, CDC stopped obligatory hospital knowledge assortment, New York Instances demise knowledge has stopped. (Observe that the 2 metrics the hospital-centric CDC cared about, hospitalization and deaths, have each gone darkish). Ideally I’d exchange hospitalization and demise knowledge, however I’m undecided how. I may additionally develop the wastewater part to incorporate (yech) Verily knowledge, H5N1 if I can get it. Ideas and sources welcome. UPDATE I changed the Instances demise knowledge with CDC knowledge. Amusingly, the URL doesn’t embrace parameters to assemble the tables; one should reconstruct then manually every time. Caltrops abound.
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new as we speak; all others should not up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (Biobot) Lifeless.
[2] (Biobot) Lifeless.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, provided that the mannequin fully missed KP.2.
[4] (ER) CDC appears to have killed this off, because the hyperlink is damaged, I believe in favor of this factor. I’ll attempt to affirm. UPDATE Sure, go away it to CDC to kill a web page, after which announce it was archived a day later. And heaven forfend CDC ought to clarify the place to go to get equal knowledge, if any. I appreciated the ER knowledge, as a result of it appeared actually arduous to sport.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Barely, however distinctly up. The NY city space has kind; in 2020, as the house of two worldwide airports (JFK and EWR) it was an vital entry level for the virus into the nation (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the wealthy sought to flee, and across the nation by means of air journey). So my pure inclination is to see how wastewater at JFK and EWR is doing. CDC, earlier than it determined to butcher wastewater visualization, offered knowledge right down to the sewage remedy plant degree, so I may verify the Brooklyn plant for JFK (and likewise the Brooklyn plant for LGA). Effectively, that’s not attainable, however the Verily [vomits quietly] wastewater website — Biobot being kaput — offers knowledge on EWR. Right here it’s:
So, New York Metropolis Hospitalization up, Covid from air journey up. Make of that what you’ll. Covid can be up in Singapore and France, you’ll recall.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC) Nonetheless down. “Maps, charts, and knowledge offered by CDC, updates weekly for the earlier MMWR week (Sunday-Saturday) on Thursdays (Deaths, Emergency Division Visits, Take a look at Positivity) and weekly the next Mondays (Hospitalizations) by 8 pm ET†”.
[7] (Walgreens) Slight uptick.
[8] (Cleveland) Leveling out.
[9] (Vacationers: Posivitity) Up and down.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) KP.2 enters the chat, as does B.1.1.529 (with backward revision).
[11] CDC’s knowledge and visualization, nonetheless being up to date.
Stats Watch
Employment Scenario: “United States Preliminary Jobless Claims” [Trading Economics]. “The variety of folks claiming unemployment advantages within the US fell by 8,000 to 215,000 on the week ending Could 18th, beneath market expectations of 220,000. The declare depend was significantly beneath the elevated ranges from earlier within the month however remained firmly above the averages from February to April to consolidate the softer momentum within the US labor market.”
Manufacturing: “United States Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Kansas Metropolis Fed’s Manufacturing Manufacturing index improved to -1 in Could of 2024 from -13 within the earlier month, pointing to the softest contraction in three months.”
In the present day’s Worry & Greed Index: 59 Greed (earlier shut: 58 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 63 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Could 23 at 12:32:09 PM ET.
The 420
A society the place people are always self-medicating with a thoughts altering substance is a well being recipe for catastrophe. We’d like an sincere dialog concerning the dangers of normalizing widespread marijuana use- particularly for youths/ pregnant girls/ earlier than driving/ whereas at work.… https://t.co/KT8XDJ5xy1
— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) Could 23, 2024
“And with the precise treatment….”
I don’t know if that is an precise “boogie“; I believe not. One reviewer calls it “a unfastened funky-tonk wobble.” However I don’t know what that even means, if something. Maybe the musicians within the readership will enlighten us?
The Gallery
“Stay all you’ll be able to. It’s a mistake to not.”
Gustave Caillebotte, Man on the Window https://t.co/OMzADJkSga pic.twitter.com/AQiaByz48C
— Impressions (@impression_ists) Could 22, 2024
“Out of the Extraordinary: Vermeer’s world and ours” [The Point] “The expertise of People coming to phrases with Dutch artwork in self-reflective methods is a recurring theme in Twenty first-century American literature. Take, as an example, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (2013), named after the aforementioned portray by Carel Fabritius. The e book follows Theo, a younger American, as he struggles to seek out his place in our fashionable world; the chicken—a lightweight, virtually weightless creature affixed to a feeding publish—turns into symbolic of those travails. The portray is so magical, Theo narrates, one barely notices ‘the chain on the finch’s ankle, or suppose what a merciless life for somewhat dwelling creature—fluttering briefly, compelled all the time to land in the identical hopeless place.’ For Tartt, The Goldfinch shouldn’t be a lot an illustration of a chicken as an inverted portrait of us: fashionable topics, bearing the shackles of our personal putative freedom. ‘It’s arduous to not see the human within the finch,’ Tartt writes. ‘One prisoner taking a look at one other.’” • The Goldfinch:
Information of the Wired
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