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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Hen Track of the Day

Tropical Mockingbird (Mayan), Casa en Cuxtitali, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. “A few of the chook species that I feel this particular person may need been mimicking on this minimize are: Nice-tailed Grackle (00:25), parakeet sp. (02:51).” A lot of nice ambient sounds too!

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In Case You May Miss…

  1. Friday’s charts: RCP averages (good week for Trump); Covid (XEC has entered the chat).
  2. What, once more, was Kamala considering?
  3. boeing“>Boeing recordsdata unfair labor follow cost with NLRB in opposition to machinists (wowsers).

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Search for the Helpers

“Two Instances in Complicity” [New York University Law Review]. “The controlling function of this piece is to determine and proper a snag in the way in which courts distinguish discrete modes of criminality: serving to, doing, and making an attempt…. [H]elping gestures are by definition exterior the weather of the crime being helped; anybody who fulfills a component of the crime is committing the crime, not serving to it…. My proposed repair is to raise the perform of elemental evaluation in complicity, partially by reviving an esoteric English doctrine, “joint principality,” which holds that in some cases of group criminality, there is no such thing as a serving to; there’s solely doing (or making an attempt to do). To soak up this educating is to raised perceive not simply the connection between language and the world, however the stakes in mistaking tried homicide for homicide. Exactly as a result of in no jurisdiction is tried homicide punished as severely as homicide, differentiating between serving to, doing, and making an attempt includes making ethical—not simply semantical—judgments each about what has been performed and what to do about it.” • Hmm.

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My e-mail handle is down by the plant; please ship examples of there (“Helpers” within the topic line). In our more and more determined and fragile neoliberal society, on a regular basis regular incidents and tales of “the communism of on a regular basis life” are what I’m in search of (and never, say, the Crimson Cross in Hawaii, and even the UNWRA in Gaza).

Politics

“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

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2024

Lower than thirty days to go!

Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:

When you ignore the whole idea of margin of error and go along with the narrative, one other good week for Trump, particularly in MI and PA, tbough not, oddly, within the two hurricane swing states, GA and NC. In fact, we on the skin may as properly be inspecting the entrails of birds once we attempt to predict what’s going to occur to a subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars particularly may as properly be quantum foam, however presumably the marketing campaign professionals have higher knowledge, and have the scenario as underneath management as it may be MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!.

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Kamala (D): “Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer in deeply weird ‘communion’ video” [New York Post]. “Within the quick clip, posted on podcaster Liz Plank’s Instagram account, the lefty influencer was seen on her knees opening her mouth for Whitmer to put Doritos on her tongue.” • Right here it’s:

Leaving the query of why a Canadian podcaster apartMR SUBLIMINAL Sacre tabarnak!, what on earth was Kamala’s marketing campaign considering? IM Doc posted on this in feedback this morning, studying the video as a Communion parody. A lot for the Latino vote! Being an Episcopalian — the priest would place the wafer in my hand — that wasn’t my first studying; I noticed the video as some type of weird domination/submission ritual* (and a lot for these younger males, together with each suburban family with out a dungeon within the basement). Apparently the subMR SUBLIMINAL snickertextual content of the video was — please sit down — industrial coverage, particularly the CHIPS act as a result of — observe me carefully right here — Doritos are chips (and go lengthy Doritos, I suppose). If I have been Julie Chávez Rodriguez (marketing campaign supervisor), Jen O’Malley Dillon (marketing campaign chairwoman), Jeffrey Katzenberg (marketing campaign co-chair), Mitch Landrieu (marketing campaign co-chair), or Cedric Richmond (marketing campaign co-chair), I might be getting Whitmer — additionally a marketing campaign co-chair (!) — on the cellphone, to have a full and frank alternate of views. In fact it’s too late, however one may as properly vent. NOTE * Pr0nographic in character, with Huge Gretch wanting into the digicam.

Kamala (D): “Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour selling Harris” [The Hill]. • Nice thought. Will the flaming wreckage of Whitmer’s profession slot in one seat? Or will they want two?

Kamala (D): Can’t anybody right here play this sport?

Kamala (D): “Vice President Kamala Harris on Her Race to the End” [Vogue]. Value studying in full for the ambiance. I keep in mind, from the film Shakespeare in Love, a monitoring shot that adopted Queen Elizabeth: as she processed alongside, she was at all times surrounded by a swirl of courtiers doffing their hats and bowing; that should have been all she noticed; this text describes an analogous milieu. This caught my eye: “I ask what her first name can be on reaching the Oval Workplace. ‘One in all my first calls—exterior of household—can be to the workforce that’s working with me on our plan to decrease prices for the American folks,’ she says. ‘It’s not nearly publishing one thing in a revered journal. It’s not a couple of speech. It’s actually about, How does this hit the streets? How do folks really really feel the work [what work?] in a means that advantages them?’ She says she plans to fulfill with ‘those that will help us put again in place the freedoms which have been taken away with the Dobbs determination’—the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade—to get Congress to cross a regulation. ‘That’s going to take some work,’ she says.” • This doesn’t imply something. There’s nothing right here. It involves items in your hand. Anyhow, Vogue? Reaching out to these working class readers, then?

Kamala (D): “Contained in the Harris marketing campaign’s floor sport” [WaPo]. “Six questions for … Dan Kanninen: We talked with Vice President Kamala Harris’s battleground states director concerning the marketing campaign’s floor sport as early in-person voting begins within the states anticipated to resolve the election.” Kanninen: “We constructed groups in these battleground states for the reason that starting of the 12 months, [starting with] severe operatives who’ve received powerful races statewide in these states as leaders, after which layering in dozens of senior workers after which lots of of organizers — now into the 1000’s. Throughout the battleground states we presently have 2,500 workers, greater than 350 workplaces. They’ve been partaking lots of of 1000’s of volunteers, tens of 1000’s in every of these battleground states. Final week [they] knocked on one million doorways within the battleground states and [we] have continued to ramp [up] our voter contact efforts.” • Pushing a string?

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Trump (R): “Trump’s small-dollar donor fundraising is beset by confusion and fatigue” [Associated Press]. “Republicans additionally engaged in a hyperaggressive — usually combative — type of digital fundraising that’s alienating voters, the operatives stated. Campaigns and committees usually share or lease lists of donors to one another, resulting in voters being flooded with related solicitations that may be complicated. ‘Republican distributors have so mistreated our donors that many grassroots donors don’t wish to give to us anymore,’ stated John Corridor, a Republican fundraising advisor and companion at Apex Methods. ‘When you make a donation to virtually any Republican candidate at present, inside three weeks you’ll begin getting 30-50 textual content messages from different candidates you have got by no means heard of earlier than.’ Corridor’s agency despatched surveys to Republican donors earlier this 12 months and located {that a} majority of those that responded stated they continued to obtain textual content message solicitations after they’d requested to be faraway from an inventory. ‘Donors really feel like they’re by no means thanked, they really feel abused, they usually don’t know find out how to get off lists,’ Corridor stated. ‘This has a chilling impact on everybody’s fundraising.’ Small-dollar donors echoed Corridor’s issues. They advised the AP they stopped giving to Trump’s marketing campaign as a result of they have been uninterested in being barraged with solicitations for donations from different Republicans, who presumably obtained the donor info from the Trump marketing campaign. Others stated they have been being extra cautious about their political giving because of monetary struggles. ‘I’m sick of them asking for cash,; stated Susan Brito, 51, of Florida, who gave dozens of small donations totaling $69 in 2022 and 2023 however hasn’t contributed this 12 months. ‘I’m disabled, you’re sending me textual content, after textual content, after textual content.’” • Seems like Republicans have ten or 100 Mothership Methods. Sloppy!

Trump (R): “Truth test: Univision debunks false right-wing declare that Harris used a teleprompter at city corridor” [CNN]. “Univision has debunked a viral false declare that Vice President Kamala Harris used a teleprompter throughout her city corridor with the Spanish-language community on Thursday. The false declare generated tens of millions of views on X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter. It was made by a number of right-wing commentators with important followings, together with Benny Johnson, Charlie Kirk, Greg Value and Fox Information host Sean Hannity. Each the moderator of the city corridor, Enrique Acevedo, and the president of Univision Information, Daniel Coronell, refuted the declare in their very own X posts – noting that the teleprompter that was seen on the printed had textual content in Spanish, not English, and that it was materials for Acevedo, not Harris. Acevedo, responding to Johnson’s declare that ‘Univision by accident broadcast proof that Kamala used a teleprompter at her city corridor,’ wrote: ‘The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) after which it switched to a timer. Any declare on the contrary is solely unfaithful.’ Coronell, responding to Value’s declare that ‘Kamala is utilizing a teleprompter throughout her ‘city corridor’ with Univision,’ wrote: ‘That’s not true. The teleprompter that shows a textual content written in Spanish was a assist factor for the city corridor moderator. I can inform you this with first-hand data as a result of I used to be answerable for the tv program.’” • I virtually ran Benny Johnson’s clip earlier than I checked the textual content on the Teleprompter display screen and couldn’t learn it. And presumably Johnson et al. would have enlarged the textual content had it supported his speaking level. So there you’re. In fact, the Democrat’s propagated the false story about Vance having congress with a sofa, however when the supply (each editions of Vance’s guide) was checked, the story was debunked. Distributing an actual clip with a false implication appears extra insidious to me.

Democrats en Déshabillé

“I’m Operating Out of Methods to Clarify How Dangerous This Is” [The Atlantic]. Lead sentence: “The reality is, it’s getting tougher to explain the extent to which a significant share of People have dissociated from actuality.” And: “The world feels darkish; for many individuals, it’s tempting to fulfill that with a retreat into the delusion that they’ve obtained all the pieces found out, that the powers that be have conspired in opposition to them straight. However in turning away, they exacerbate a disaster that has characterised the Trump period, one that can reverberate to Election Day and past. People are divided not simply by political views however by whether or not they imagine in a shared actuality—or need one in any respect.” • That is particularly wealthy, for the reason that editor the The Atlantic is one David Frum, of the Bush Administration that propagated the WMDs narrative on the way in which to the Iraq Conflict debacle, the misinformation marketing campaign that I got here to political consciousness with. The Atlantic — the home of ill-fame during which the unholy marriage of liberal Democrats and Bush Republicans was consummated — was additionally assiduous in propagating RussiaGate. And but these folks prate about “shared actuality”!

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

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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 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!

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 stories); 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 (wastewater); 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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Keep secure on the market!

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You do you:

Maskstravaganza

Vaccines: Covid

An infection: H5N1

Hen flu additionally rolling alongside fairly properly:

Sequelae: Covid

“Vascular Pathogenesis in Acute and Lengthy COVID: Present Insights and Therapeutic Outlook” [Thieme]. From the Summary: “Lengthy coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19)… manifests with a broad spectrum of relapsing and remitting or persistent signs in addition to assorted ranges of organ injury, which can be asymptomatic or current as acute occasions similar to coronary heart assaults or strokes and recurrent infections, hinting at advanced underlying pathogenic mechanisms. Central to those signs is vascular dysfunction rooted in thrombotic endothelialitis. We evaluation the scientific proof that widespread endothelial dysfunction (ED) results in persistent symptomatology. We briefly look at the molecular pathways contributing to endothelial pathology and supply an in depth evaluation of how these mobile processes underpin the scientific image…. Total, we emphasize the essential function of mobile well being in managing Lengthy COVID and spotlight the necessity for early intervention to stop long-term vascular and mobile dysfunction.” • Since I didn’t know the supply, I double-checked it with KLG, and he gave it the thumbs-up: “Determine 1 is a murals.” So right here it’s:

Social Norming

As common with Tern, 10 = 50:

#49 – #50:

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Lambert right here: XEC transferring alongside neatly within the nationwide variant chart, however doesn’t seem in any respect within the traveler’s variant chart. Odd!

TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts

Wastewater
This week[1] CDC October 5 Final Week[2] CDC (till subsequent week):

Variants [3] CDC October 12 Emergency Room Visits[4] CDC October 5

Hospitalization
New York[5] New York State, knowledge October 10: Nationwide [6] CDC September 21:

Positivity
Nationwide[7] Walgreens October 7: Ohio[8] Cleveland Clinic October 5:

Vacationers Knowledge
Positivity[9] CDC September 16: Variants[10] CDC September 16:

Deaths
Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11]CDC September 28: Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12]CDC September 28:

LEGEND

1) for charts new at present; all others aren’t 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) Nonetheless some sizzling spots, however I can’t draw circles round whole areas this week. Excellent news!

[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.

[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* very talked-about. XEC has entered the chat.

[4] (ED) Down, however price noting that Emergency Division use is now on a par with the primary wave, in 2020.

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Undoubtedly down.

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). I see the “all the pieces in greenish pastels” crowd has gotten to this chart.

[7] (Walgreens) Huge drop continues!

[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.

[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up, although lagged.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants).

[11] Deaths low, positivity down.

[12] Deaths low, ED down.

Stats Watch

Inflation: “United States Producer Costs” [Trading Economics]. “Producer Costs in america elevated to 145.17 factors in September from 145.10 factors in August of 2024. Producer Costs in america averaged 117.54 factors from 2009 till 2024, reaching an all time excessive of 145.17 factors in September of 2024.”

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Manufacturing: “Boeing recordsdata unfair labor follow cost in opposition to hanging union” [Reuters]. “Boeing stated late on Thursday it had filed an unfair labor follow cost with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board in opposition to the union representing its hanging U.S. West Coast manufacturing facility staff, accusing the leaders of not bargaining in good religion…. Boeing stated on Tuesday it had withdrawn its newest pay provide to the Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Employees after two days of talks with federal mediators, citing the union’s refusal to significantly think about its proposals. In a submitting with the NLRB, Boeing additionally accused the union’s leaders of misrepresenting the phrases of Boeing’s provide to its members and of not bringing negotiators to the desk with authority to make a deal. Boeing stated the union had engaged in a ‘sample of dangerous religion bargaining’ and its ‘public narrative is deceptive and making it tough to discover a resolution for our workers.’” Caught pig squeals. Extra: “The union stated on Tuesday that Boeing was ‘hell-bent’ about sticking to its ‘finest and last’ proposal of a 30% wage enhance over 4 years that it supplied final month after the strike started. The union had declined to place the proposal to its members for a vote and stated this week it deliberate a brand new survey of members. Boeing famous the union later acknowledged the planemaker had improved its provide, with IAM 751 president and lead negotiator Jon Holden telling Reuters on Wednesday that the proposed modifications have been ‘meager.’” • Boeing’s provide didn’t handle defined-benefit pensions, requested by staff. And it’s a little bit wealthy for Boeing administration to bitch a couple of public narrative after they issued their revised proposal by way of the press, and never on the negotiating desk. Good man, that Ortberg fella.

Manufacturing: “Tensions are rising within the Boeing strike after the planemaker filed a criticism in opposition to the union” [Business Insider]. “Reinstating the pension plan stays a key problem for a lot of on the picket line — however Boeing’s chief negotiator, Mike Fitzsimmons, advised The Seattle Instances there’s ‘no state of affairs’ the place this may occur. In a press release shared with BI, Boeing stated it stays dedicated to reaching a compromise. ‘The union’s public narrative is deceptive and making it tough to discover a resolution for our workers,’ it added.”• So what’s flawed with the union’s “public narrative”? They weren’t Fitzsimmons’ stenographers? And their not “your” workers, buddy. Sheesh.

Manufacturing: “FAA’s ‘failing system’ of monitoring Boeing blasted by federal watchdog” [Seattle Times]. “The FAA hasn’t moved to proactively determine threat or demonstrated the way it will resolve allegations of undue strain inside Boeing manufacturing, the [the Transportation Department’s inspector general] discovered. Among the many different findings: The FAA doesn’t have an efficient system overseeing particular person Boeing factories, hasn’t ensured the corporate has successfully resolved its provider points, and hasn’t assessed the effectiveness of Boeing’s security administration system, which focuses on product and office security. ‘By enhancing its oversight mannequin to raised handle threat, FAA will help to enhance a failing system and restore public belief within the security of Boeing plane,’ the report stated. In response, the FAA agreed with the suggestions and pointed to its addition of extra security inspectors in Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems amenities. The company stated it plans to completely implement the inspector common’s suggestions between 2025 and 2028.” • Do I actually have to offer credit score to Buttigeig?

Manufacturing: “Boeing and Airbus have a significant headache in widespread” [Quartz]. “Christian Scherer, head of the industrial airliner division at Airbus, advised a gathering of French aerospace journalists that Spirit’s charge of manufacture is ‘not precisely the place we want.’ Airbus is dealing with strain to massively enhance its airplane deliveries with the intention to hit its year-end steering, which it has already needed to minimize as soon as this 12 months amid provide chain difficulties. When the door plug fell off a Boeing 737 Max 9 in January and triggered a Federal Aviation Administration-imposed throttling of manufacturing to handle high quality management points, Airbus advised traders that it didn’t count on to hit any of its personal plane-building roadblocks. Nevertheless it has — to its prospects’ frustration. (In addition to the Spirit velocity problem, Scherer advised the French gaggle that it was additionally working into delays with engine provider CFM Worldwide… It’s particularly ironic for Airbus as a result of the window of alternative that Boeing’s misfortunes opened was because of a fuselage constructed by Spirit, which Boeing spun out in 2005. With the intention to minimize down on so-called ‘traveled work,’ a producing course of the place aircraft elements are assembled out-of-order with the intention to velocity completion, Boeing reabsorbed the non-Airbus elements of Spirit in July for $8.3 billion.”

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Immediately’s Concern & Greed Index: 74 Greed (earlier shut: 70 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 73 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Oct 11 at 1:44:36 PM ET.

Zeitgeist Watch

“Calvin’s Dad Explains the Pre-Colour World” [Daring Fireball]. • Please click on by way of, however what a pleasure. Calvin’s Dad was the perfect bullshit artist ever.

Social Media Watch

“Contained in the funhouse mirror manufacturing facility: How social media distorts perceptions of norms” [Current Opinion in Psychology]. “These on-line dynamics are amplified by the design options and suggestion algorithms on varied platforms. As an example, a current evaluation of the algorithm on Twitter/X discovered that it prioritizes evocative content material. This incentivizes customers to create such a content material which will help them construct a big following whereas warping public perceptions of norms. Certainly, people who find themselves targeted on gaining social standing are probably the most hostile on-line. These strivers might additional distort norms as they rise in standing That is compounded because of the truth that there’s usually little motivation for somebody to submit a nuanced or average opinion on social media. Furthermore, nuanced or average posts usually threat hostility from extra excessive ingroup and outgroup members, particularly since such hostility has little price for the aggressor as a result of social distance the net atmosphere affords. Certainly, people who find themselves politically average have been extra prone to report being harassed on-line, despite the fact that they have been additionally much less prone to submit. Individuals who maintain much less excessive beliefs have much less funding into arguing, and when attacked by individuals who have extra strongly held beliefs, understand it as extra hostile. The truth that individuals who ‘troll’ different folks sometimes have greater darkish triad traits additionally doesn’t encourage nuanced debate.” • Hmm.

“Intercourse bomb: The collateral injury of OnlyFans’ explosive success” [Reuters]. “OnlyFans and its supporters painting the platform as a secure and empowering outlet for profitable, socially acceptable intercourse work. Nurses, academics, law enforcement officials and Olympic athletes have posted racy content material in pursuit of additional money. As OnlyFans takes porn into the mainstream, nevertheless, the platform additionally has generated ripple results which have upended lives in surprising and typically traumatizing methods. Reuters reported a number of the most direct harms in investigations that uncovered youngster sexual abuse materials and nonconsensual or “revenge porn” posted on the positioning. These findings have been drawn from police complaints obtained from greater than 250 of the most important U.S. regulation enforcement companies. However the recordsdata additionally reveal collateral harms: households torn aside, reputations threatened, funds ruined.” • And that’s earlier than, as is the way in which with all platforms, enshittification kicks in.

Class Warfare

“Right here’s everybody caught within the internet of the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegations thus far” [NPR]. • Disappointing. The closest to an A-lister is Jimmy Iovine.

Information of the Wired

“Cincinnati’s Gold Rush Cash, Steeped In Thriller, Are Value A Fortune Immediately” [Handeax]. “We all know the Cincinnati firm headed westward hauling a machine for hanging cash as a result of the diary of one in all Physician Alexander Butler Nixon is preserved on the California State Library in Sacramento. In response to that diary, the Cincinnati firm sarcastically realized, as soon as they have been on the dusty path, that they have been too properly outfitted. John Phillip Reid, in a 1976 article for the Hastings Regulation Journal, described the dilemma: ‘Earlier than reaching Fort Kearney in Nebraska the members of the Cincinnati firm had found that their wealth was not a supply of energy. It was as an alternative a supply of disharmony, dissension, and division.’” • Hmm. I’m picturing a survivalist with a machine for hanging cash of their basement…

“A language of lovely impurity” [Wrong Side of History]. “What [English] would appear like if Harold II had not died on the well-known (breme) battle (gouth) of Hastings – and English had not undergone Frenchification following the Norman Conquest: On this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous turns into sameheart and acceptable is changed with thankworthy. The US Declaration of Independence can be the ‘Forthspell of Selfdom’ whereas Alcoholics Nameless renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers.• I moderately like “The Unnamed Overdrinkers” (even when nameless means I don’t select to offer me title, not that I don’t have one). Likely examples might be multiplied.

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Readers, I’ve had a correspondent characterize my views as real looking cynical. Let me briefly clarify them. I imagine in common applications that present concrete materials advantages, particularly to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime instance, however tuition-free faculty and a Put up Workplace Financial institution additionally fall underneath this heading. So do a Jobs Assure and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can ship on such applications, as a result of the 2 are totally different flavors of neoliberalism (“As a result of markets”). I don’t a lot care concerning the “ism” that delivers the advantages, though whichever one does should put widespread humanity first, versus markets. Could possibly be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t a lot care, so long as the advantages are delivered.
To me, the important thing problem — and because of this Medicare for All is at all times first with me — is the tens of 1000’s of extra “deaths from despair,” as described by the Case-Deaton research, and different current research. That big physique rely makes Medicare for All, on the very least, an ethical and strategic crucial. And that stage of struggling and natural injury makes the issues of identification politics — even the worthy battle to assist the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton’s wars created — vibrant shiny objects by comparability. Therefore my frustration with the information movement — presently for my part the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the opposite by out-of-power liberals and their allies within the State and within the press — a information movement that continually forces me to give attention to issues that I regard as of secondary significance to the surplus deaths. What sort of political financial system is it that halts and even reverses the will increase in life expectancy that civilized societies have achieved? I’m additionally very hopeful that the persevering with destruction of each celebration institutions will open the house for voices supporting applications much like these I’ve listed; let’s name such voices “the left.” Volatility creates alternative, particularly if the Democrat institution, which places markets first and opposes all such applications, isn’t allowed to get again into the saddle. Eyes on the prize! I like the tactical stage, and secretly love even the horse race, since I’ve been running a blog about it day by day for fourteen years, however all the pieces I write has this attitude behind it.





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