By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Hen Track of the Day
Massive Wren-Babbler, Pahang – Bukit Rengit, Pahang, Malaysia. I just like the identify, “Wren-Babbler.”
In Case You May Miss…
(1) Trump polling exhibits results of conviction amongst independents.
(2) Biden fundraiser video.
(3) Kamala Harris mailer.
(4) H5N1 cluster continues.
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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 12 months to go!
RCP Ballot Averages, Could 24:
Nonetheless ready for some discernible impact from Trump’s conviction (apart from, I suppose, his nationwide numbers rising). Swing States (extra right here) nonetheless Brownian-motioning round. After all, it goes with out saying that these are all state polls, subsequently unhealthy, and many of the outcomes are throughout the margin of error. If will likely be fascinating to see whether or not the decision in Decide Merchan’s courtroom impacts the polling, and in that case, how.
* * * Trump (R): “Trump unleashed: That is the calm earlier than the storm” [Salon]. “Trump’s MAGA cultists deal with his speeches and rallies like a kind of non secular service the place they’re worshipping their Pricey Chief as a kind of prophet and messiah-god-martyr. Trump is continuous to summon and channel Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as he makes use of eliminationist and different genocidal language to explain non-white migrants and refugees and the opposite folks (Democrats, liberals, and “the Left”) he views as “vermin” and human air pollution in American society…. Essentially the most naïve will proceed to cover behind America’s ‘establishments’ and ‘nationwide character’ and the way ‘the guardrails’ and ‘the rule of regulation’ will supposedly not enable Trump to interact within the kinds of violence and authoritarian plans he has publicly outlined and promised in opposition to his “enemies.”” • The corollary right here is that if the Democrats, from the bottom on upwards, genuinely imagine this — and I’ve come to the reluctant conclusion that they do, and it’s not merely manipulation — they can’t presumably enable Trump to take workplace. An election the place Biden wins the electoral faculty is, you would possibly say, Plan B. What Plan A is we don’t know, however you will be positive it’s being gamed out, simply because it was in 2020 (with 2016 a gentler model).
* * * BIden (D): “If Biden doesn’t ace the primary debate, will he get replaced on the conference?” [Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill]. “[T]he scheduled presidential debate on June 27 would be the most vital check but to find out Biden’s psychological acuity…. The stress on Biden to ‘ace’ the talk will likely be monumental…. The warnings from Silver, Stephens and others are crucial as a result of apart from an outright well being emergency, there is just one extra “political window” left to take the president out of the working and change in one other candidate in his place. That window being on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago starting on August 19, the place Biden’s delegates might be launched to vote for a extra ready Democrat.” • Ed Kilgore says the Democrats would swap in Harris (and never Newsom, and never my favourite darkish horse, Pritzker). I don’t disagree, partly as a result of this actually is the stupidest timeline, but additionally as a result of the Democrat base thinks she’s OK, and the way on earth do they throw a [genuflects] Black girl below the bus? Even a girl who’s putatively Black (sadly, I can’t appear to search out the very early California marketing campaign poster the place she identifies as an Indian; this was earlier than the “individual of coloration” locution was invented).
Biden (D): This video, I imagine, shouldn’t be impeachable:
So embarrassing.
The Democrats can’t let this go on, absolutely? pic.twitter.com/ptCtWBbFfh— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 16, 2024
Watch how Obama guides Biden, particularly that creepy little pat on the shoulder at 0:34 (“We’re virtually again to your room, Joe, and you’ll lie down”). Yikes.
Biden (D): “White Home, Obama group dispute characterization of fundraiser video” [The Hill]. “The White Home and former President Obama’s group disputed the characterization that President Biden froze up on stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser and needed to be led off the stage by the previous president. The New York Put up wrote in regards to the video of Biden below the headline ‘Biden seems to freeze up, must be led off stage by Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser.’” • I feel the Put up and the varied Trump influencers are over-egging the pudding; they need to simply sit again and let Biden be Biden, which he will likely be. There doesn’t want to be any “freeze-up”; watching the way in which Obama guides Biden, together with Biden’s gait, is sufficient. They’re additionally making two dangerous bets: (1) that Biden received’t be correctly juiced for the talk; and (2) that nothing related will occur with Trump, who’s no spring hen himself. Paging Susie Wiles!
Biden (D): I simply obtained my first Harris mailer, so I felt I ought to add some useful annotations, and share:
[1] Harris would hardly have begun her profession as an outdated prosecutor, absolutely.
[2] The phrase “” doesn’t agree with the topic of the sentence, “,” until Biden is, Schrodinger-like, concurrently President and Vice President. (Readers, I do know there’s a reputation for this error, however I can’t dredge it up. Please add in feedback).
[3] As soon as once more, if Democrats actually imagine this, they can’t let Trump take workplace.
[4] I assume they’re going with “our democracy” and never populism (although one might argue that “our progress” gestures vaguely within the path of populism).
[5] Contradicts [3]. Why am I sending twenty 5 bucks to stop rhetoric?
* * *
“Resilience Half 1 (or a First Take a look at the 538 Mannequin for 2024)” [Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo]. “538 simply launched its official 2024 forecast mannequin. It exhibits a toss-up. (Technically, out of a thousand simulations, Biden wins 53% of the occasions and Trump wins 47% of the occasions.) That is vital, however not maybe in the way in which you suppose. First, whereas ballot averages are useful to creating sense of the present state of the race, forecasts are like predicting the longer term. In actual fact, they’re actually about predicting the longer term. And predicting the longer term is difficult — a primary life lesson when you haven’t come throughout it but. To me, the 538 modeling is the gold normal. However I see it nonetheless as half a novelty. That’s no criticism of the individuals who put it collectively, extremely sensible people [who left effing scrolls bars off the page, that kind of smart]. It’s simply that there are a number of elements that may’t be decreased to formulation and knowledge inputs and the information that may be put into the mannequin include their very own clouds of uncertainty. To me it’s a useful knowledge train which takes a knowledgable individual’s vary of things, provides a bunch extra and appears at them in a scientific and consistent-over-time vogue, stripped of wishful considering. That’s useful. It’s simply not the be all and finish all. However right here’s why it’s vital.” • And on into “glass half full.” And Marshall is completely right. In a 50/50 race there are paths to victory for Biden, too, simply as there have been for Trump in 2016. Including, I favor Silver the pundit to 538 the modeler. No less than with the previous, the assumptions are seen. Talking of glass half full–
“The Neglected (However Actual) Chance of a Massive Democratic Win” [The Atlantic]. “The relentless concentrate on Trump is comprehensible, but it surely has obscured a central actuality of the 2024 election: Democrats have an actual probability to comb the presidency, Home, and Senate. And in the event that they do, their congressional majority would probably be extra cohesive and progressive than throughout President Joe Biden’s first two years in workplace. Biden’s deficit within the polls is way smaller than the get together’s panic suggests and has narrowed since Trump’s felony convictions. Democrats must flip only some seats to recapture the Home. Holding the Senate received’t be straightforward, however because of the retirements of a pair of maverick Democrats, even a small majority might open a path to [
pathetically small] substantial legislative achievements such because the passage of a complete voting-rights invoice, a federal assure for abortion rights, decrease drug costs, and an expanded social security web.” Extra: “Progressives are prodding him on this path too. In April, the Congressional Progressive Caucus printed an agenda comprising dozens of insurance policies that it believes Democratic majorities might enact in a Biden second time period and that it desires the president to focus on in the course of the marketing campaign. . However it featured many concepts that fell simply in need of passing in 2021 and 2022, resembling increasing Medicare protection and Social Safety advantages, implementing common pre-Ok and tuition-free public faculty, and restoring an expanded little one tax credit score.” • That’s our Progressives! By no means main, all the time following!“The dread election: Share of ‘double haters’ hits historic excessive” [Axios]. “1 / 4 of People maintain unfavorable views of each President Biden and former President Trump — the best share of ‘double haters‘ at this stage in any of the final 10 elections, based on new Pew Analysis knowledge. The intently watched bloc has practically doubled in dimension since 2020, making this fall’s Trump vs. Biden rematch essentially the most dreaded election in fashionable political historical past…. Prime strategists say the race is prone to be determined by 6% of voters in six swing states. Lots of them will maintain their nostril and choose a candidate they dislike in November.” However: “‘They might dislike each candidates, however the depth on Trump’s adverse is increased,’ Democratic pollster Jefrey Pollock instructed Axios. ‘A marketing campaign that has the sources to influence these people has some benefit.’”
“Additional ideas in regards to the foreseeable future” [Roger Kimball, American Greatness]. Reads just like the man emptied his quote field, however that is enjoyable: “Pollsters are busy taking the heartbeat of voters, and pundits are doing their owlish greatest to parse the information and take the auspices. It pains me to say that a lot of them are within the place of poor Publius Claudius Pulcher, commander of the Roman fleet in 249 on the Sicilian Battle of Drepana in the course of the First Punic Warfare. It was customary, earlier than a battle, for Romans to seek the advice of the sacred chickens. Some feed was scattered in entrance of them. In the event that they ate, the auspices had been good and the battle might proceed. In the event that they turned up the beaks on the meals, nonetheless, the prudent commander held again. Pulcher scattered the meals. The chickens didn’t eat. He tried once more. Identical consequence. Lastly, exasperated, he had the beast[s] tossed overboard and is claimed to have remarked, Bidant, quoniam ēsse nolunt: allow them to drink since they don’t wish to eat! Pulcher, you’ll not be stunned to listen to, misplaced the battle.”
Our Famously Free Press
“Fox’s Howie Kurtz Criticizes ‘Deceptive’ Protection Of Biden Cheapfake Video — Together with Fox Information” [Mediaite]. “Fox Information host Howie Kurtz ripped “deceptive” protection — together with Fox’s — of a cheapfake video of President Joe Biden on the G7 watching a skydiving present final week. The RNC Analysis account seized on a second during which the president moved away from the group to congratulate a skydiver who was packing his chute. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy then grabbed Biden’s arm to attract his consideration to a member of the skydiving group who was addressing the group of world leaders…. The New York Put up then posted a model of the clip cropped vertically so the skydiver Biden was congratulating didn’t present within the video.” Kurtz: “[I]f you have a look at it from a barely broader angle, the President had turned to speak with a skydiver who simply landed as a part of a present close to the world leaders and to provide the person a thumbs up earlier than Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni guided him again to the place they had been taking a gaggle picture.” • The ethical: At all times go along with the wide-angle view, not the close-up. Photographers like close-ups; “In case your footage aren’t adequate, you’re not shut sufficient,” stated Robert Capa. However we needs to be in search of information images, not “good” images.
“Sinclair floods native information web sites with lots of of misleading articles about Biden’s psychological health” [Popular Information]. “On June 13, Sinclair’s Nationwide Desk printed an article headlined, ‘Biden seems to get lost throughout G7 summit, escorted again by Italian PM.’ The article hyperlinks to a social media publish by right-wing polemicist Collin Rugg, who commented on a video clip by RNC Analysis. Rugg says Biden ‘seems to start out wandering off on the G7 summit and must be dealt with again in,’ describing it as a ‘clown present.’ The Trump marketing campaign claimed Biden was ‘wandering round like a brain-dead zombie.’ Sinclair, echoing the Trump marketing campaign’s political assault, described it as one in all ‘a string of unusual incidents for Biden.’ There was nothing unusual in regards to the incident. The G7 leaders watched a skydiving demonstration, with every parachuter carrying a flag for every nation. Biden briefly walks away from the group to provide one other parachuter a thumbs up. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated that Biden ‘was being very well mannered and went over to speak to all of them individually.’” I did, actually, see what presupposed to be the total video, which does this (video “purports to be” till confirmed in any other case). Extra: “Every of those crass political smears masquerading as journalism was syndicated to a minimum of 86 native information web sites owned by Sinclair. ”
Spook Nation
“Intelligence Officers Secretly Paid by Massive Tech to Struggle Antitrust Reforms” [Lee Fang]. “Excessive-level former intelligence and nationwide safety officers have offered essential help to Silicon Valley giants because the tech companies fought off efforts to weaken on-line monopolies and pressure competitors on main platforms… ‘We have to hold Massive Tech robust — so it might probably hold America robust,’ claimed Robert O’Brien, the previous White Home Nationwide Safety Advisor to President Trump. O’Brien has appeared on cable information packages and penned a number of opinion columns rallying opposition to tech antitrust reforms in Congress…. .The disclosures present that the tech group not solely paid a gaggle of former Trump intelligence officers but additionally retained the companies of International Technique Group, a polling and consulting agency that advises the Democratic Nationwide Committee. CCIA, notably, repeatedly cited O’Brien’s considerations round nationwide safety and China, casting him as a impartial professional moderately than a paid advisor.”
Clinton Legacy
“Hillary Clinton’s shock Tony’s look baffles viewers as she makes political joke” [Daily Express]. Clinton is a producer of the Broadway musical Suffs (“Suffragettes”). This appears to have been the joke: “Whereas talking in regards to the suffragettes, she quipped she is aware of how ‘exhausting it may be to make change’, referring to her makes an attempt for the Presidency.” • Her outfit:
If you happen to needed to run, I suppose that’s simpler to do in a caftan {that a} Nina McLemore….
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 Sources, 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 Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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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 reviews); 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).
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Transmission: Covid
“Viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in physique fluids related to sexual exercise: a scientific evaluation and meta-analysis” [BMJ Open]. From the Summary: “Goal: To determine and summarise the proof on the extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA detection and persistence in physique fluids related to sexual exercise (saliva, semen, vaginal secretion, urine and faeces/rectal secretion)…. Outcomes: … The utmost viral persistence for faeces/rectal secretions was 210 days, adopted by semen 121 days, saliva 112 days, urine 77 days and vaginal secretions 13 days. Culturable SARS-CoV-2 was optimistic for saliva and faeces.” • Information you should utilize!
Elite Maleficence
“Hen flu snapshot: A critic of the U.S. response speaks out, and USDA tries to ‘nook the virus’” [STAT]. “Seth Berkley, the previous head of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, gave voice final week to a degree of view STAT has been listening to for some time in regards to the U.S. response to the H5N1 chook flu outbreak in dairy cows. ‘,’ Berkley, an American presently dwelling in Switzerland, stated… Berkley was speaking, amongst different issues, in regards to the surveillance being executed to attempt to get a deal with on how widespread the outbreak has truly turn out to be. It has been practically three months for the reason that virus was first recognized in cattle, and the nation is not any nearer to a solution to that query…. Have any of the affected herds cleared their infections? If that’s the case, what number of? The USDA couldn’t reply these questions on Thursday. And but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack confidently declared at a press convention earlier this month that his division feels it is aware of how the virus is transferring between herds and find out how to cease it. ‘We try to basically nook the virus,’ Vilsack stated, even supposing operators of solely 11 of the affected herds have utilized for USDA assist to enhance biosecurity on their farms and defray testing prices.” • I’ve to admit, there are occasions when our institutional response makes me really feel like this:
I suppose there was nowhere to run to, however nonetheless! 😳pic.twitter.com/3GE4M4YOxa
— James Withers (@JamesRWithers) July 10, 2022
The videographer survived, thankfully, as I, and also you who’re studying this have executed, thus far. So, not “worry mongering” however readability, rational apprehension, anticipation.
“Will probably be a miracle if H5N1 doesn’t go full explosive pandemic.” [Lazarus Long, ThreadReader]. “So, the USDA is telling us to not fear as a result of they’re relying on public well being to check folks to tell us whether it is spreading in folks. Who will not be being examined.” Oh. Extra: “Not coincidentally, do you know that 10% of poultry employees check optimistic for H5N1? Per @NIOSH, in DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Quantity 2008–128. “Defending Poultry Employees from Avian Influenza (Hen Flu)” By which they suggest respirators or PAPR.” • PAPR = Powered Air Purifying Respirator.
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new at present; all others will not be 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. The numbers in the fitting hand column are an identical. The dots on the map will not be.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, on condition that final week KP.2 was throughout every thing like kudzu, and now it’s KP.3. If the “Nowcast” can’t even forecast two weeks out, why are we doing it in any respect?
[4] (ER) That is the most effective I can do for now. No less than knowledge for your complete pandemic is introduced.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) A slight lower adopted by a return to a slight, regular improve. (The NY city space has type; 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, after which across the nation by way of air journey.)
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). That is the most effective I can do for now. Notice the idea that Covid is seasonal is constructed into the presentation. No less than knowledge for your complete pandemic is introduced.
[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; huge leap. (As a result of there may be knowledge in “present view” tab, I feel white states right here have skilled “no change,” versus don’t have any knowledge.)
[8] (Cleveland) Going up.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up. 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 strategy to regulate the time rasnge. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or evaluate one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) Identical deal. These sh*theads. I’m leaving this right here for one more week as a result of I detest them a lot:
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED up.
Stats Watch
Manufacturing: “United States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index elevated to -6 in June 2024 from -15.6 in Could, beating forecasts of -9. It’s the highest studying in 4 months, though it nonetheless pointed to a average decline in enterprise exercise within the New York State.”
Tech: “Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit basis mannequin” [Ars Technica]. “‘We imagine that if we wish to result in large-scale change, Proton can’t be billionaire-subsidized (like Sign), Google-subsidized (like Mozilla), government-subsidized (like Tor), donation-subsidized (like Wikipedia), and even speculation-subsidized (just like the plethora of crypto ‘foundations’),’ Proton CEO Andy Yen wrote in a weblog publish saying the transition. “As an alternative, Proton should have a worthwhile and wholesome enterprise at its core.’ The announcement comes precisely 10 years to the day after a crowdfunding marketing campaign noticed 10,000 folks give greater than $500,000 to launch Proton Mail. To make it occur, Yen, together with co-founder Jason Stockman and first worker Dingchao Lu, endowed the Proton Basis with a few of their shares. The Proton Basis is now the first shareholder of the enterprise Proton, which Yen states will ‘make irrevocable our want that Proton stays in perpetuity a corporation that locations folks forward of income.’ Amongst different members of the Basis’s board is Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML, HTTP, and virtually every thing else in regards to the internet. Of explicit significance is the place Proton and the Proton Basis are situated: Switzerland. As Yen famous, Swiss foundations wouldn’t have shareholders and are as an alternative obligated to behave “in accordance with the aim for which they had been established.’ Whereas the for-profit entity Proton AG can nonetheless do issues like provide inventory choices to recruits and even elevate its personal capital on non-public markets, the Basis serves as a backstop in opposition to transferring too removed from Proton’s founding mission, Yen wrote.”
Immediately’s Worry & Greed Index: 42 Worry (earlier shut: 38 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 43 (Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 17 at 1:48:29 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 188. (Keep in mind that bringing on the Rapture is nice.) • Hen flu not a priority, apparently. Nonetheless flirting with the 189 ceiling….
The Gallery
Some say the Nabis are simply wallpaper. And typically they’re! However what wallpaper!
Inside with Pink Wallpaper I https://t.co/flX708ew5m pic.twitter.com/Gm012ci9X2
— Edouard Vuillard (@edouardvuillard) June 17, 2024
Information of the Wired
“NASA once more delays Boeing Starliner’s return residence” [Phys.org]. “Mark Nappi, vp of Boeing’s Business Crew Program, added, “We’ve an unbelievable alternative to spend extra time at station and carry out extra assessments which gives invaluable knowledge distinctive to our place.” • Nothing to see right here!
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