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In Case You May Miss…
- Boeing strike information (thickheaded administration digs deeper).
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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
Trump Assassination Makes an attempt (Plural)
Not unsuitable:
* * * Possibly Trump ought to cease messing with the Haitians
Simply saying 🤷🏼♂️ pic.twitter.com/hs6xqbFix5
— Santa Claus 🎅🏻☃️🎄🦌🛷 (@Old_Santa_Claus) September 16, 2024
The stitched blue X’s for the (lifeless) eyes are an particularly cute contact, aren’t they? Who’s promoting this kitsch? Penzeys?
“Democrats’ Rhetoric Impressed One other Try On President Trump’s Life” [Donald J. Trump]. Issued by the marketing campaign, however that is the model I discovered. “Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump was the goal of a second assassination try in as many months. Fortunately, the would-be murderer was stopped by the heroic motion of legislation enforcement — however make no mistake, this [stochatic terrorism] which have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Pretend Information allies for years. Democrats used more and more incendiary rhetoric towards President Trump within the days, weeks, and months main as much as the 2 assassination makes an attempt.” • An extended listing of receipts, with hyperlinks. The Democrats, having developed and propagated the speculation of stochastic terrorism (see yesterday’s submit) now don’t get to say that “using mass communications to fire up random lone wolves” doesn’t apply to their rhetoric. Oddly, there are not any Trump-as-Hitler refererences within the receipts; presumably as a result of the marketing campaign didn’t need to reinforce it. This issues, at the least to the moralist, as a result of whereas preserving “our democracy” is likely to be a casus belli, it’s usually not used as an excuse for assassination (Sic semper tyrannis being the counter-example). Nevertheless, there’s an entire discourse constructed up across the query of whether or not killing Hitler would have been justified or not, and lots of say that it might have been.
“After attainable assassination try, Trump decries ‘rhetoric’? Spare me the sanctimony.” [Rex Hupke, USA Today]. The deck: “The concept that Harris or her marketing campaign ought to cease speaking concerning the risk Trump poses to our democracy is absurd. Democrats usually are not encouraging any type of violence towards him or anybody else.” “• The problem right here is that (as I present right here) not solely hated Trump, wrote that “you might be free to assassinate Trump,” and quoted the “our democracy” speaking level. So when Hupke writes: “There’s zero proof connecting both gunman to Democrats calling Trump ‘a risk to democracy’” he’s not telling the reality.
* * * “Why Did Journalists Like Me Take Ryan Routh Critically?” [The Free Press]. Value studying in full; kudos for the mea culpa, uncommon within the press: “In March 2023 I interviewed an odd man named Ryan Routh. We had been launched by a supply inside Ukraine’s international legion, a army unit composed of international volunteers from greater than fifty nations all around the world…. He appeared genuinely passionate, if maybe slightly too keen to help a international conflict midway world wide. After my story printed, I by no means thought of him once more. Till yesterday, that’s, when the title Ryan Routh exploded throughout my telephone—and yours…. The man strikes to the capital of a nation at conflict, regardless of having no private connection to it. He doesn’t converse Russian or Ukrainian. Looking back, shouldn’t it have struck the reporters, together with myself, as slightly bit. . . odd? The query is: Why didn’t it? Effectively, for one, I believed he was doing good work: It was clear he cared deeply about Ukraine’s battle. I’m Russian—born and raised in Moscow—however I think about the Russian conflict towards Ukraine an unjustified act of aggression. So did Ryan Routh….. The story of Ryan Routh is a cautionary story. Our growing willingness to tolerate insanity within the service of the causes with which we would agree dangers obscuring the straightforward incontrovertible fact that the ‘proper’ type of loopy remains to be precisely that: loopy.” • Larry Summers, for instance, is “the correct of loopy.”
* * * “DeSantis says federal authorities investigating thwarted Trump assault ‘might not be the very best factor’” [Washington Examiner]. In hyperlinks in the present day, however including this remark: “‘We additionally consider that there’s a have to be sure that the reality about all this comes out in a method that’s credible,’ DeSantis mentioned at a Monday press convention. ‘I have a look at the federal authorities, with all due respect to them, those self same businesses which might be prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction at the moment are going to be investigating this? I simply suppose that that might not be the very best factor for this nation.’” • A lot as I detest DeSantis, he’s proper (although additionally able to messing up the Florida investigation, particularly as a result of Florida legislation enforcement can also be concerned; we’ll need to see). It is mindless handy the case over to the lawfare goons.
“US Secret Service can’t assure Trump and Harris security from extra gunmen, sources warn” [iNews]. • There are not any ensures on this life. However holy moley, Biden and Harriss are supposedly operating the administration. And the organs of state safety get no matter they ask for. And operationally, what they’ve mentioned is that when a sitting President performs golf, the golf course will get surrounded. We will’t do this for a former President who’s already been shot directly? It’s ridiculous. (Recall additionally that Biden refused RFK safety, regardless of his household historical past.)
2024
Lower than sixty days to go!
Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:
A couple of polls post-debate, however as of this studying little change. To be truthful, it’d take a while for sentiment to settle; and the successful margins might at this level be so minute as to be undetectable. Nonetheless, the Democrats have to be very puzzled to have digital unanimity throughout the political spectrum that “Harris is the one” — it was a tidal wave, after the controversy — and but the election is a digital tie. How can this be? Maybe a couple of extra Republicans, generals, or celebrities will flip the tide.
* * * Trump (R): “Will two assassination makes an attempt alter the election?” [The Hill]. “The New York Occasions: ‘The shock from the taking pictures in Butler [Pa.] wore off comparatively shortly as consideration turned to different developments. The shock from this one might not final any longer.’” • “Shock” is a media factor. What issues is turnout, particularly in Pennsylvania (the positioning of the primary taking pictures).
Trump (R): “The Memo: Try on Trump’s life reverberates in White Home race” [The Hill]. “The second try on Trump’s life inside roughly 9 weeks will certainly rev up his base, additional heightening the passions of supporters who’re already susceptible to consider that the forty fifth president is a goal of bigger, nefarious forces. It’s attainable the obvious try on Trump’s life might additionally win over no matter skinny sliver of the voters nonetheless populates the middle floor — an element that might be vital in a presidential race towards Vice President Harris that’s basically deadlocked. The startling chain of occasions might maybe solidify a few of Trump’s softer supporters — these Republican-minded or socially conservative voters who’re hesitant to again the previous president due to his belligerent rhetoric and penchant for private invective.” • Sure, let’s be severe. Is Trump providing anyone ice cream? I relaxation my case.
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic 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 handle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
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Transmission: Covid
“Oscillating spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 in the US” [Nature]. From the Dialogue: “Annual biking of respiratory virus transmission, together with widespread chilly coronaviruses, is effectively documented, so the tough annual frequency traced by the 2 nationwide COVID case price curves… was not stunning. Nevertheless, our discovering of the extra EUCO and NUCO regional oscillators of COVID-19 case charges was surprising. Moreover, our statement that COVID-19 case charges repeatedly elevated every summer season within the southern US was surprising, as this statement runs counter to the anticipated associations of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and colder climate. If the south had a single peak annually, it’d certainly be attainable to clarify the oscillation by the annual temperature cycle, however the south had not only one however two annual peaks, one within the hottest months of July and August, and the opposite in January and February. The surge of circumstances within the south in the summertime is opposite to the anticipated seasonal surges of widespread respiratory viruses, and inconsistent with the speculation that they’re associated to colder temperatures within the standard method. Isolation of mode II knowledge as we’ve got completed right here, and basically discarding different mode knowledge as noise, ought to facilitate research to search out the mechanistic drivers of this robust north–south epidemic oscillator.” • In different phrases, it’s not helpful to consider Covid as “seasonal” (making it all of the extra unlucky that Information Medical protection describes these oscillations as “seasonal”). I hope an epidemiologist within the readership can check out this, as a result of it’s fascinating.
“Surprising six-month sample of COVID-19 circumstances found within the U.S.” [News-Medical Life Sciences]. “COVID-19 circumstances within the U.S. have proven surprising oscillating waves each six months between the southern states and the northern states and, to a lesser diploma, from east to west, in keeping with new analysis printed in the present day in Scientific Studies.
Public well being scientists from the College of Pittsburgh, College of Ottawa and College of Washington carried out the primary detailed evaluation to show and characterize the six-month oscillation of circumstances throughout house and time.
Transmission: H5N1
“Missouri Chook Flu Case Raises Chance of Human Transmission” [US News]. “U.S. well being officers have reported that an individual who lived with a Missouri resident contaminated with H5N1 turned sick the identical day… Nonetheless, CDC officers instructed the New York Occasions on Friday night time that there was ‘no epidemiological proof right now to help person-to-person transmission of H5N1,’ though extra analysis is required… Earlier than the Friday report was posted, neither the CDC nor Missouri well being officers had talked about the shut contact’s sickness. The truth is, CDC officers mentioned in a Thursday media briefing that it was unclear how the primary affected person had grow to be contaminated and known as the case ‘a one-off.’ And on Thursday night, Missouri well being officers mentioned that ‘all contacts are identified and remained asymptomatic through the statement interval,’ the Occasions reported. However by Friday, CDC officers acknowledged that the family contact’s sickness ‘ought to have been talked about within the press briefing, together with the extra context,’ the Occasions reported, although the danger to the general public stays low, officers mentioned. Nonetheless, outdoors consultants criticized the omission. ‘There are completely no circumstances wherein it’s acceptable to not have disclosed that data yesterday,’ Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Heart on the Brown College College of Public Well being, instructed the Occasions on Friday.” • Lie, lie, lie….
Variants: Covid
“Now we have lived by way of a Covid summer season – and now there may be new variant inflicting concern” [Independent]. “And in keeping with consultants a brand new ‘stronger’ variant is now spreading throughout Europe. First recognized because the XEC pressure in Germany in June, international well being consultants consider that it might be the dominant variant inside months and trigger a brand new spike when the climate turns colder.” • No, it’s not the effing climate [pounds head on desk].
“COVID variant XEC sees fast international progress: What to know concerning the new pressure” [USA Today]. “XEC and a variant generally known as MV.1 appear poised to grow to be the subsequent dominant strains, scientists say…. ;At this juncture, the XEC variant seems to be the most probably one to get legs subsequent,’ Scripps Analysis Translational Institute Director Eric Topol wrote on X.”
Sequelae: Covid
“Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?” [Time]. “Within the U.S. alone, about one million extra working-age adults reported having severe problem remembering, concentrating, or making selections in 2023 in comparison with earlier than the pandemic, in keeping with a New York Occasions evaluation of Census Bureau knowledge. It’s not outlandish to suppose the pandemic has had an impact on our minds, says Jonas Vibell, a cognitive and behavioral neuroscientist on the College of Hawaii at Manoa. Vibell is at present attempting to measure post-COVID irritation and neuronal harm within the brains of people that report signs like mind fog, sluggishness, or decreased vitality. When he started publicizing the examine, he says, ‘I received so many emails from a lot of individuals saying the identical factor”: that they’d by no means totally bounced again after the pandemic. However why?” Let the minimization start! “It’s most likely a mixture of issues, Vibell says. The SARS-CoV-2 virus can have an effect on the mind immediately, as many research have now proven. However the pandemic might have additionally affected cognition in less-obvious methods. Months or years spent at house, dwelling most of life by way of screens, might have left a lingering mark. Though society is now principally again to regular, the trauma of dwelling by way of a terrifying, unprecedented well being disaster may be laborious to shake.” Again to mechanisms as a substitute of vibes: “COVID-19 has been linked to severe cognitive issues, together with dementia and suicidal pondering. And mind fog, a typical symptom of Lengthy COVID, may be so profound that individuals are unable to stay the lives and work the roles they as soon as did. However COVID-19 additionally appears capable of have an effect on the mind in subtler methods. A 2024 examine within the New England Journal of Drugs in contrast the cognitive efficiency of people that’d totally recovered from COVID-19 with that of the same group of people that’d by no means had the virus. The COVID-19 group did worse, equal to a deficit of about three IQ factors.” • A-a-a-n-d again to vibes. (Usually, I’m all for wealthy, nuanced explanations involving sociology and psychology. However I don’t suppose the ought to be placed on the identical analytical aircraft as organic mechanisms, particularly when these mechanisms have very robust backing within the literature, and that’s what this text does.)
Morbidity and Mortality
“Covid-19 might result in longest interval of peacetime extra mortality, says new Swiss Re report” (press launch) [Swiss Re]. “Report suggests potential extra mortality within the normal inhabitants of as much as 3% for the US by 2033 and a pair of.5% within the UK, the longest interval of elevated peacetime extra mortality within the US. Key driver of extra mortality is the lingering impression of COVID-19; each as a direct reason for demise, and as a contributor to cardiovascular mortality. Decreasing the impression of COVID-19 on aged and susceptible populations can be key to extra mortality returning to zero.” • Who mentioned it was “peacetime”? Commentary:
That feeling when one of many largest and most iconic insurance coverage organisations publish a report saying that the three% extra demise burden attributable to Covid will preserve operating for ANOTHER TEN YEARS, however they nonetheless suppose it is *post-covid* extra mortality and have not realised that WE’RE…
— tern (@1goodtern) September 17, 2024
Elite Maleficence
“A Transient Historical past of American Eugenics” [Jessica Wildfire, Sentinel Intelligence]. “The thought itself originated with Charles Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, who invented the time period in 1883. He argued that governments ought to play a extra direct position in “enhancing” the human race by way of a spread of insurance policies. By the early twentieth century, eugenics had grow to be a broadly accepted concept in western tradition, endorsed by everybody from Winston Churchill to Woodrow Wilson and taught in tons of of universities from Northwestern to Harvard. British eugenicists finally rejected the American spin on the concept, discovering it utterly horrifying…. Darwin’s cousin created the phrase, but it surely solely gave People a time period to articulate concepts that have been circulating for many years, all rooted in a nationwide obsession with racial and religious purity. The historical past issues as a result of eugenics has returned stronger than ever in American tradition, resting on the tip of each complacent tongue as People ignore genocide overseas whereas committing social homicide at house, casually mocking anybody who nonetheless wears a masks and framing anybody in favor of public well being as fringe, anxious, or simply plain bizarre. What you see in America’s historical past is a need to rid society of the ‘undesirable’ going again to the late nineteenth century and resulting in the height of the eugenics motion within the Thirties.” • Effectively price a learn, although I would love the proponents introduced as much as the current day.
Social Norming
A Quiet Place (“A household struggles for survival in a world invaded by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive listening to”):
“Half of People by no means suppose they’ll get COVID once more” [Ipsos]. Helpful chart:
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
Lambert right here: First time in a very long time I’ve seen nationwide traits downward for each positivity and hospitalization. Even when wastewater nonetheless seems to be fairly ugly, that’s superb information. I assume that what’s occurring is the top of the Summer season Trip cycle of an infection, and there can be a brief lull till the start of the Again to College cycle. If not, that can be an excellent signal.
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LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new in the present day; all others usually are 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] (CDC) This week’s wastewater map, with sizzling spots annotated. Retains spreading. NOTE The date appears to be unsuitable, however the variety of websites has modified so that is new.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* very talked-about. XDV.1 flat.
[4] (ED) Down, however price noting that Emergency Division use is now on a par with the primary wave, in 2020.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Positively down.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). The visualization suppresses what’s, in share phrases, a major enhance.
[7] (Walgreens) Large drop continues!
[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Down. These sh*theads at CDC have modified the chart in order that it doesn’t even run again to 1/21/23, because it used to, however now begins 1/1/24. There’s additionally no approach to regulate the time vary. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or examine one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) What the heck is LB.1?
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED up.
Stats Watch
Industrial Manufacturing: “United States Industrial Manufacturing” [Trading Economics]. “Industrial manufacturing in the US stalled in August of 2024 in comparison with the identical month final 12 months, following a downwardly revised 0.7% decline in July.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing Lays Off ‘Important’ Contractors in Sweeping Price Cuts” [Airline Geeks]. “The producer reportedly eliminated ‘dozens’ of engineering contractor positions with solely a day’s discover. These contractors are largely retired workers who have been introduced again to assist repair ongoing manufacturing points with the Boeing 777X, 787 Dreamliner, and 737 MAX. Talking to The Seattle Occasions, one engineer described the contractors as ‘very important,’ calling the transfer ‘simply one other very unhealthy choice in a seamless lengthy line of unhealthy selections.’” • You come out of retirement to assist Boeing, so that they lay you off?
Manufacturing: “Boeing’s CFO desires to chop prices but it surely might be a dangerous maneuver” [Fortune]. The URL is extra pointed: “boeing-cfo-cut-costs-amid-strike-observer-warns-death-spiral/” Extra: “As CFO, West wrote in a letter to workers on Monday that these actions “will create some uncertainty and concern…. Actions reminiscent of hiring freezes and furloughs are instant cash-saving measures that can impression the underside line, Jason Walker, founding father of Thrive HR Consulting, instructed me. This can be a fairly normal method if you end up apprehensive about the amount of money you will have readily available, he mentioned…. [However, when] once you make this type of choice, particularly in case you are Boeing, it solely provides to the cultural woes of the corporate, Walker mentioned. ‘Staff have already got a dim view of administration, and that is simply going to make it worse; I believe they’re actually in a demise spiral of their very own making,’ he mentioned…. He added: ‘From whistleblower lawsuits, the brand new CEO shopping for a $4.1 million home, high quality points, and now this—the unhealthy optics simply preserve going.’ Being laser-focused on the monetary elements of the corporate is a finance chief’s job, Walker mentioned. Nevertheless, at occasions, some CFOs might have “full disregard for the individuals facet of the enterprise,” and workers normally determine that out shortly, he mentioned.” • Form of wonderful the information comes from the CFO (West) and never the CEO (Ortberg). Appears to speak who’s actually in cost….
Manufacturing: “Boeing Has Too A lot Debt. Right here’s How A lot Inventory It May Need to Difficulty” [Barron’s]. “Debt to Ebitda is a typical measure of stability sheet power. The common debt to Ebitda earned over the previous 12 months for industrial firms within the S&P 500, excluding Boeing, is about 1.5 occasions…. There are about 270 investment-grade-rated non-financial firms within the S&P 500. Their common web debt to Ebitda is about 1.2 occasions. Virtually all have generated constructive Ebitda over the previous 12 months and about 240 have generated constructive free money circulate…. Boeing’s Ebitda generated over the previous 12 months is near zero…. [W]ith Boeing in the present day. Free money circulate is unfavorable due to low manufacturing. Boeing is predicted to ship some 475 planes in 2024, down from a pre-pandemic peak of greater than 800 in 2018. Wall Avenue doesn’t challenge deliveries to hit 2018 ranges till 2027.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing strike feelings flare as safety guard flashes gun in picket line altercation” [CBS]. “An ongoing strike by 33,000 Boeing machinists took a doubtlessly harmful flip as a safety guard displayed a gun following an altercation with staff strolling a picket line on Monday outdoors the airplane producer’s foremost hub in Seattle…. Boeing known as the incident ‘unacceptable’ and mentioned that the contract safety guard concerned wouldn’t be returning to the corporate.” • However the unnamed safety agency will nonetheless preserve the contract?
At present’s Worry & Greed Index: 54 Impartial (earlier shut: 50 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 38 (Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 13 at 1:58:23 PM ET.
Social Media Watch
Definitely sturdy with respect to the Jackpot:
Tempted to purchase an outdated letterpress machine to start out making a month-to-month snail-mail publication. Solely offline. Cost by mailed test/ present card, or native money/ barter solely.
Making a dwelling as a author on-line has been a blessing, however the entire “cashless economic system” factor scares me.… pic.twitter.com/NbzhRo63To
— 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 (@shagbark_hick) September 17, 2024
Gallery
Hockney (1):
Genuinely impressed by how unhealthy the brand new window in Westminster Abbey is pic.twitter.com/7PH1DveueB
— alex zawacki (@AChillGhost) September 16, 2024
Hockney (2):
Afternoon daylight streams into the Abbey by way of The Queen’s Window, designed by David Hockney and put in in 2018 to have fun the reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II. It depicts a vividly colored nation scene reflecting The Queen’s deep affection and connection to the… pic.twitter.com/3nL236Cwcl
— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) August 7, 2024
Hockney (3):
Garden sprinkled https://t.co/RPREet0ghR pic.twitter.com/NCQcQqFkrZ
— David Hockney (@ArtistHockney) September 17, 2024
I believe the Medium issues….
Zeitgeist Watch
I assume Lawson gained’t be getting any repeat enterprise from Routh:
NOTE: YouTube now makes you log in to observe the extra standard model of this clip (on which the feedback are nice).
Class Warfare
The way it began:
A life lengthy pet resistant human who had allergy symptoms now has a kitten in his house. Want me effectively. pic.twitter.com/KLKsEYCZwi
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) September 8, 2024
The way it’s going:
The kitten likes consuming water from my water mug. I am assuming there may be nothing I can do to cease this, sure? I’ve resorted to now bringing 2 water cups and inserting a serviette over the one I need to use.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) September 16, 2024
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EH writes: “Here’s a image from Might 17, 2024 of Blue-eyed Grass, flourishing all alongside a brand new wetland wild flower path in Chestertown, Maryland, the place we go to pals every so often . There’s additionally a wild North American Strawberry rising amongst it. These are comparatively newly planted and are thriving. I attempted a number of occasions to develop this miniscule wetland/ woodland member of the iris household in my yard in Brooklyn, NY, as a result of I remembered it rising in abundance within the woods once I lived in North Carolina, however sadly, it didn’t like my situations.” Have any readers had higher luck?
