By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Hen Track of the Day
From Texas. “There’s a second Prothonotary singing twice within the background. Territorial sin….”
From alert reader MS, right here is an open supply chicken track identifier! Sadly, it’s constructed for the Raspberry PI, however that’s a neat, Jackpot-compliant machine (to the extent any digital circuitry is Jackpot-compliant).
Politics
“However what’s authorities itself, however the biggest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They’d realized nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
“When the going will get bizarre, the bizarre flip professional.” –Hunter Thompson
Capitol Seizure
“Textual content messages reveal Trump’s chief of employees orchestrated January 6 coup try” [WSWS]. “On Monday, CNN printed excerpts from 2,319 textual content messages despatched and acquired by Donald Trump’s former Chief of Workers Mark Meadows which affirm past a shadow of a doubt that the manager department and a considerable portion of the Republican Celebration had been scheming for months with fascists to dam the certification of the election on January 6, 2021 and set up a dictatorship. The texts expose the already threadbare lie that what befell through the assault on the Capitol was unplanned, spontaneous and unserious.” • Unserious? Does this look critical to you:
Readers, I hope I haven’t been remiss in not monitoring the 1/6 story intently. I confess I’ve priors, since these are mainly “The partitions are closing in!” crowd, and so they have kind (which is, in fact, the genetic fallacy). Then too, the liberal Democrats staged a coup towards the Trump administration in all however identify, so it’s arduous for me to get labored up about “our democracy” coming from these guys. That stated, in some unspecified time in the future — one assumes earlier than the summer season and in time for the midterms — a stable, coherent, non-screechy narrative, with a timeline and proof, will emerge and we’ll have to judge it. Right here’s an instance that caught my eye:
That was a key second. Trump’s folks had put in a loyalist (Ornato) to handle Pence’s element that day. He was tasked with eradicating Pence from the Capitol and so they deliberate to take him to Andrews AFB, for his “security.” This could have prevented certification of the election. pic.twitter.com/lRzf3jkaGI
— Karen Hansen 🇺🇸🗽🌊 🇺🇦 (@knhansenmd) April 23, 2022
Pence, who emerges as a heroic albeit stolid determine, says “I’m not getting within the automotive.” Yikes! My issues with the Tweet are two-fold. Trivially, I can’t provide you with a success on “the Vice President refused to be pushed to security,” so I don’t know the sourcing. Much less trivially, it’s well-known that conspiracies increase in scale, as new actors are added to make the narrative work. On this one, Trump appears to have suborned the Secret Service. Actually? All that stated, we await the 1/6 Commitee’s report with curiosity. Maybe will probably be as attention-grabbing because the Durham report.
Biden Adminstration
“A crystal-clear difficulty: The White Home is in determined want of recent glassware” [CNN] • Why? Has Kamala been throwing it?
2022
* * * “‘It’s Time to Head for the Lifeboats’: Democratic Fatalism Intensifies” [New York Times]. “One signal of the alarm rippling by the occasion: Some Democratic politicians have begun creating distance between themselves and the president. Senate candidates are stampeding to interrupt with the administration’s immigration insurance policies, as an example. Different strikes are extra delicate, similar to these of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who quietly eliminated the president’s identify from information releases about federally funded infrastructure initiatives. ‘What you’re seeing is folks feeling prefer it’s time to go for the lifeboats fairly than making an attempt to steer the ship, ‘stated Robert Gibbs, a former White Home press secretary who labored below Barack Obama. A way of fatalism is setting in amongst many, with discussions centering more and more on the right way to restrict the occasion’s anticipated losses fairly than the right way to acquire new seats.” • Ronald Klain feedback:
An attention-grabbing commentary, simply FYI.
President Macron seems to have secured a double-digit victory over LePen, at a time when his approval score is 36%. Hmmm….https://t.co/N50u8He5gW
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) April 24, 2022
Most of me gleefully awaits Democrats getting an excellent, old school beatdown come November; they’ve definitely earned it! Then again, liberal Democrats had been hysterical about redistricting for a very long time, and it labored out effectively for them. So all of the hysteria is making me really feel counter-suggestible. If Biden may really ship on one thing — pupil loans for the alienated youth vote? Grow to be a critical wartime chief? — issues may be much less unhealthy for Democrats than we think about at this time. There’s additionally consideration to be given to 1/6, if Democrats may one way or the other handle to create a coherent narrative about “our democracy,” and presumably avoid wasting Home seats due to it. (Sadly, if in truth the Democrats get creamed, the management will retain its grip on energy.)
“Democrats ring alarm bells over younger voters and the 2022 election as Biden’s scores slip” [NBC]. “Mary Collins voted for President Joe Biden in 2020. A yr and a half later, Collins, 25, of Raleigh, North Carolina, provides the White Home and the Democratic-led Congress a 4 out of 10 on efficiency. ‘It simply doesn’t seem to be there’s plenty of progress,” she stated. “You hear some good issues the Biden administration has carried out, however in any other case it is extremely underwhelming.’…. Scores of Individuals like Collins — younger, liberal-leaning, economically anxious and disenchanted that Democratic-controlled Washington hasn’t carried out extra to enhance their lives — maintain substantial energy within the 2022 elections. Democrats want Gen Z and millennial voters to prove to have any hope of preserving the Home or the Senate. They usually don’t habitually vote in midterms. Collins stated she does plan to vote this fall —’sadly’ for Democrats. A registered impartial, she’s open to alternate options however turned off by the GOP’s opposition to abortion rights, dismissal of local weather change and denigrating of migrants and non-Christians. After youth turnout soared to report ranges in 2020, fueled by Biden’s progressive agenda and a need to ship President Donald Trump residence to Florida, Democratic strategists are sounding the alarm in regards to the lack of enthusiasm amongst younger voters. They concern it may trigger dissatisfied youthful Individuals to take a seat out the 2022 elections and ship a walloping for the occasion. Stopping that, they are saying, would require extra funding and outreach, in addition to coverage wins or proof that Democrats are combating for points they care about.” • No, not “combating for.” Delivering. This isn’t arduous!
“Republicans are greater than able to blowing the 2022 midterms” [The Hill]. “At the least three elements may reverse the anticipated fortune for the GOP. The primary can be voter apathy by conventional Republicans, conservatives and other people of religion. The second can be — drum roll, please — potential fallout from something Donald Trump says, does or hints. And the third can be a full-court press by Democrats, aided by some within the mainstream media, to come back throughout as all of the sudden reasonable whereas metaphorically throwing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as far overboard as attainable. All three elements will occur to some extent. The query is, will some mixture of them be sufficient to carry the Democratic majority in Congress after November? Apparently Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) principal technique for profitable is to keep away from mentioning something that Republicans would do in the event that they regained majority management. The quote typically attributed to Napoleon — ‘By no means intrude with an enemy whereas he’s within the strategy of destroying himself’ — is smart if one believes the Democrats are failing throughout the board, however many Republican voters who’ve been burned earlier than by the GOP management nonetheless wish to hear a plan.” • Heave Biden and Harris over the facet why? As a result of they’re too far left?
“The Squad may develop stronger even when Dems lose huge” [Axios]. “The Squad is poised for giant positive aspects in November regardless of the Democrats’ probably lack of the Home. The progressive politics that mainstream Democrats blame for his or her decline stand to take heart stage if each trendlines maintain. And the Squad-Plus can be positioned to push the diluted ranks of its rivals into backing a few of its agenda — impacting the 2024 presidential race. As many as six staunchly progressive candidates have viable probabilities to win Home seats this cycle.” Greg Casar (TX), Jessica Cisneros (TX), Summer time Lee (PA), Erica Smith (NC), Becca Balint (VT), and Amy Vilela (NV). Extra: “Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley simply defeated major challengers in 2020 and appear on glide paths for reelection this cycle.”
OR: “Thriller candidate shakes up Oregon Home contest” [The Hill]. When Oregon formally received a brand new U.S. Home seat within the decennial redistricting course of final yr, it set off a scramble amongst formidable politicians who noticed a uncommon likelihood to advance their careers. Three state representatives, a former county commissioner and the chairwoman of the Oregon Medical Board shortly jumped within the race. However the dialog within the new district has been dominated by a 35-year-old newcomer making his first run for workplace who has raised more cash than every other contender and who has been bolstered by an unprecedented onslaught of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in tv promoting paid for by a number of political motion committees. Now, in a state ordinarily managed by the Democratic institution, occasion insiders are asking one query: Who’s Carrick Flynn? Shield Our Future PAC, a gaggle backed by crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, has already spent $6.2 million on tv, digital and radio adverts and one other $500,000 introducing Flynn by mail. It’s an unimaginable sum of money in a major contest, particularly on behalf of a candidate who has by no means sought workplace earlier than. And it has angered Flynn’s rivals who level out that the highest Democratic tremendous PAC has opted to weigh in on behalf of a straight white male in a contest that options three girls of colour…. Lots of Flynn’s donors are concerned in an internet discussion board known as Efficient Altruism, a gaggle that analyzes how finest to spend cash on philanthropic efforts. Their conclusion, in keeping with a few of the posts backing Flynn, has been that spending a couple of million on a congressional race may lead to billions in spending on pandemic preparedness by the federal authorities. Flynn is ‘the primary particular person to ever run for US congress on a platform of stopping future pandemics,’ wrote one consumer, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, who known as his donation to Flynn “the perfect $5,800 I’ve ever donated (to pandemic prevention).” • This appears to be the Efficient Altruism discussion board; the funding just isn’t clear to me.
PA: “Senate front-runner in Pennsylvania embraces Biden and progressive agenda amid Democrats’ midterm dilemma” [CNN]. “Lt. Gov. John Fetterman swung by the guts of Republican nation in Southwestern Pennsylvania, within the reddest of pink districts, the place then-President Donald Trump trounced Joe Biden by greater than 55 factors and MAGA indicators are nonetheless obvious on seemingly each different avenue nook. However fairly than reasonable, Fetterman leaned into his progressive views.
As he labored a couple of dozen voters on the Flyin’ Lion watering gap, whereas sporting a hooded sweatshirt, basketball shorts and gymnasium sneakers on a snowy spring day, Fetterman renewed his push for marijuana to be legalized nationwide, touted the function of immigrants within the US, known as for the transgender group to be handled equally, decried efforts to pare again abortion entry and backed requires stricter gun legal guidelines, together with a ban on semi-automatic rifles. In an interview with CNN, Fetterman didn’t conceal his palpable frustration with Democratic senators, saying, ‘I’m disenchanted in our caucus’ for not growing the $7.25 federal minimal wage, and he blamed West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for blocking the Biden agenda, leaving his occasion ‘floundering.’ When requested about requires extra bipartisanship, Fetterman didn’t flinch, asserting there’s little frequent floor in working with Republicans who undermined the legitimacy of Biden’s 2020 victory and tried to outlaw abortion. ‘I additionally need a full head of hair,’ stated the bald, 6-foot-8 Democrat. ‘However realistically that’s not going to occur proper now.’”
UT: “Utah Democrats again impartial as US Senate candidate” [ABC]. “Utah Democrats pulling arduous to defeat Republican Sen. Mike Lee took the bizarre step Saturday of spurning a celebration hopeful to as an alternative get behind an impartial, former presidential candidate Evan McMullin. Democrats had been swayed by calls from distinguished members who stated McMullin, a conservative who captured a big share of the vote in Utah in 2016, was the perfect likelihood to beat Lee within the deeply conservative state that hasn’t elected a Democratic U.S. senator for greater than 50 years. ‘I wish to symbolize you. I’m dedicated to that. I’ll keep my independence,’ McMullin informed Democratic delegates.”
2024
“Kamala Harris’ chief of employees heading for the exit” [CNN]. “Flournoy is the newest in a protracted string of exits from the vice chairman’s workplace, which has been shaken up a number of occasions in current months. Flournoy’s deputy Michael Fuchs earlier this month introduced that he can be leaving the administration. The White Home confirmed lately that nationwide safety adviser Nancy McEldowney would step down, to get replaced by her deputy Phil Gordon. And Harris’ communication’s crew acquired an almost full makeover in current months, after her communications listing Ashley Etienne, chief spokesperson and senior adviser Symone Sanders and deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh all left the workplace inside months of each other different. Flournoy, who joined the crew firstly of the operation, led the workplace by a rocky summer season for the vice chairman, throughout which Harris drew criticism after a number of messaging missteps and staffing points. Republicans have seized on any obvious missteps, focusing on the vice chairman relentlessly. One of many hardest moments for Flournoy got here after myriad stories of dysfunction overtook the workplace’s message, many centered on the chief of employees’s management — and by extension Harris’ management. Voles was employed in the course of these summertime stories. In an announcement Thursday, Harris counseled her exiting staffer.” • This episode of The West Wing Factor consists of an incident in Poland. the place Harris responded with inappropriate laughter to a fairly query on refugees from Ukraine. “A good friend in want is a good friend in want [laughter].” The laughter, apparently, went on for a while.
Sure, your work is completed:
SEN. WARREN on @MeetThePress: “I’m not operating for president in 2024, I’m operating for senate.”
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) April 24, 2022
Democrats en Déshabillé
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Celebration (“the Democrat Celebration is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated submit, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Celebration is, in truth, a tough drawback. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Celebration is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Celebration didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working components of the Celebration reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Celebration (ka-ching, however not solely) these components comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.
Notice, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
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Republican Funhouse
“EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s firm to rumble with Twitter from Sarasota County” [USA Today]. “Rumble is a video platform firm, and its controversial transfer to Sarasota County lately triggered simply that: a rumble. Now for one thing way more seismic, that ought to actually rattle the dishes within the cabinets of conservatives and critics alike: Donald Trump’s media firm is barely 11 miles away from Rumble. The main points of how Trump’s firm wound up on North Cattlemen Highway, in an industrial a part of Sarasota, are unknown, however certainly it’s right here, in keeping with state enterprise information, and all of the sudden we have now turn out to be a hoop lady within the combat between Trump, Massive Tech, Twitter and Elon Musk. On April 18, state information present that Trump Media & Know-how Group Corp. registered as a enterprise in Florida and used an workplace constructing on North Cattlemen Highway in Sarasota as its tackle. The eight officers within the firm – together with Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and former California Congressman Devin Nunes – additionally record the Sarasota tackle, although there isn’t any indication any of the officers have any connection domestically, effectively, other than the actual fact Trump was farcically honored as “Statesman of the 12 months” by Joe Gruters and the Sarasota County GOP, ahem, twice. So why is that this such a giant deal? As a result of Trump Media & Know-how Group owns a social media app known as Reality Social, which is Trump’s antagonistic reply to Twitter…. On April 22, a press launch acknowledged that Rumble had ‘efficiently migrated Reality Social’s web site and cellular purposes to Rumble’s Cloud infrastructure,’ and that ‘Reality Social’s transfer marks the primary vital buyer to come back on board with Rumble.”
“The Slime Machine Concentrating on Dozens of Biden Nominees” [The New Yorker]. “However the fierce marketing campaign towards [Ketanji Brown Jackson] was regarding, partially as a result of it was spearheaded by a brand new conservative dark-money group that was created in 2020: the American Accountability Basis. An specific function of the A.A.F.—a politically energetic, tax-exempt nonprofit charity that doesn’t disclose its backers—is to stop the approval of all Biden Administration nominees.” • I’m in aghastitude. As normal, Republicans are extra critical about their politics than liberal Democrats. Why haven’t Democrats already carried out this?
“Unique: Madison Cawthorn images reveal him sporting girls’s lingerie in public setting” [Politico]. • Because of this conservatives have higher intercourse. The fun of transgression! I hate this sort of story. Who cares? I imply, after Teddy Kennedy? The Massive Canine? Cuomo?
Realignment and Legitimacy
Perhaps so:
They’re coming for lgbtq marriages https://t.co/N9pOVcqCG9
— Molly Jong-Quick (@MollyJongFast) April 24, 2022
In that case, liberal Democrats failed on this the identical manner they failed on abortion: They didn’t embody “judge-made regulation” in laws after they had the ability to take action.
#COVID19
Lambert right here: If some trusting, non-realist soul tells you that “Covid is over,” you possibly can inform them that circumstances are up, transmission is up, check positivity is up, hospitalization is up, speedy riser counties are up, and wastewater is up, too. And that is all from knowledge designed to assist the narrative, and gamed inside an inch of its life. So, if alerts like which are flashing pink, contemplate what the actual sign should be like. (Notice additionally that is all with BA.2 solely, and with what the institution considers an “immune wall” made out of vaccination and prior an infection. Since semper aliquid novi Africam adferre, and we’ve let ‘er rip on the airports…. Effectively, I simply hope we get fortunate. “God has a particular windfall for fools, drunkards, and america of America.” –Otto von Bismarck.
In the meantime, Fauci appears confused:
HEADSPINNING—
📌Fauci: “we’re out of the pandemic part”
📌Fauci: “international pandemic is ongoing”
📌Fauci: “We’re nonetheless experiencing a pandemic”.
📌Fauci: Is not going to be attending the WH Correspondent’s Dinner out of concern for “particular person threat”. #COVID19https://t.co/fK6F53UQzU pic.twitter.com/gr3IARpdtt
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 27, 2022
Commentary on scientific communication from the Biden Administration and our public well being institution:
The Confusion of Tongues, 1868 #romanticism #dore pic.twitter.com/zesbnKbLDd
— Gustave Doré (@artistdore) April 19, 2022
When you missed it, right here’s a submit on my queasiness with CDC numbers, particularly case rely, which I (nonetheless) contemplate most vital, regardless of what Walensky’s psychos at CDC who invented “group ranges” suppose. However these are the numbers we have now.
“We’re Preventing Covid With Defective Knowledge” [Bloomberg]. No sh*t, Sherlock. ” [There is a] sample on the company, which has typically backed away from knowledge assortment that may have offered a clearer view. Just a few months into the vaccination effort, in 2021, the CDC determined to cease counting gentle vaccine breakthrough infections, describing them as anticipated and a distraction. It was a call that left the company unable to see clearly when vaccine efficacy started to fade. (The CDC is taking steps to do higher: It’s pushed for extra authority to gather native knowledge, and on April 19 the company launched its new Middle for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, promising that it will assist modernize efforts to higher perceive and predict infectious ailments.)” • As I present right here, the Middle for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics received’t make its knowledge public, and it’s operations are run by a spook, oh effectively.
Case rely by United States areas:
First decisive upward flip, so we’ll see the way it goes. Keep in mind, it’s 100% sure the circumstances numbers are considerably understated. They’ve at all times been gamed, nevertheless it’s worse than earlier than. One supply stated they although circumstances may be undercounted by an element of six. Gottlieb thinks we solely choose up one in seven or eight. Along with the Fauci line, I’ve added a Democrat-blue dotted line for what the case rely can be if it had been 57,000 * 6 = 342,000. Listed below are the circumstances for the final 4 weeks:
Appears just like the Northeast has handed the torch to the West.
From the Walgreen’s test positivity tracker:
I’m leaving the corporate logo on as a slap to the goons at CDC.
NOT UPDATED MWRA (Boston-area) wastewater detection:
We’ll need to wait to week for the universitities and Easter weekend to unkink the data. (Both service areas turned down; I don’t think this is because the college semester has ended, either; readers please correct me.)
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) service area includes 43 municipalities in and around Boston, including not only multiple school systems but several large universities. Since Boston is so very education-heavy, then, I think it could be a good leading indicator for Covid spread in schools generally.
From Biobot Analytics:
Also encouraging, in that the Northeast is flattening. Not encouraging, in that the West is not. (See also case counts and rapid riser counties.)
Cases lag wastewater data.
“The National Fight Against COVID-19 Isn’t Ready To Go To The Sewers” [FiveThirtyEight]. “The Documenting COVID-19 project surveyed 19 state and local health agencies, as well as scientists who work on wastewater sampling, to learn about the challenges they’re facing. We found that many states are months away, if not longer, from being able to use wastewater data to guide public health decisions, even as the rise of an omicron subvariant, BA.2, looms. Meanwhile, the CDC’s highly shared wastewater surveillance dashboard is a work in progress, and is difficult to interpret for users who might hope to follow the trends in their areas.”
From CDC Community Profile Reports (PDFs), “Rapid Riser” counties:
California is no better, ChicagoLand is worse, the Northeast looks no better. (Remember that these are rapid riser counties. A county that moves from red to green is not covid-free; the case count just isnt, well, rising rapidly.)
The previous release:
Here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to community transmission. This is the map CDC wants only hospitals to look at, not you. In truth, every single day I am going to the identical URL. Yesterday, on the normal URL, I discovered this shame to humanity:
Happily, CDC solely moved the transmissibility knowledge to a brand new URL. So right here once more is the map CDC doesn’t need you to take a look at:
The Northeast stays stubbornly and solidly pink. Now California is pink as effectively. (It appears like parts of Maine went from Excessive (pink) to Substantial (orange), however that a part of Maine is the Unorganized Territories, the place nearly no person lives.
Hospitalization (CDC Group Profile):
The baseline continues to be low. However hospitalization is most positively up. (Notice pattern, whether or not up or down, is marked by the arrow, at high. Admissions are offered within the graph, on the backside. So it’s attainable to have an upward pattern, however from a really low baseline.)
A brand new manner for hospitals to sport the information:
Covid hospitalizations are solely counted in Massachusetts if the affected person is given Dexamethasone, which is barely beneficial for these on oxygen. I really feel the loss of life & hospitalization standards will prolong throughout different states quickly 😣 pic.twitter.com/J6ykG56Zrz
— MayasMommy2 #NotMeUs (@SheriD17536431) April 1, 2022
IM Doc writes: “I might guess with Omicron about 60% of the sufferers had been on Dexamethasone – so no – not an satisfactory proxy” for hospitalization.
Only a reminder:
As with every thing else, as a result of america just isn’t a critical nation, our hospitalization knowledge is unhealthy. Right here the baseilne is off:
Hospital trick: sufferers admitted with covid in 10-12 days turn out to be post-covid & now not counted as hospitalized covid sufferers. ICU is filled with post-covid sufferers which are right here for 30, 40, 50 & extra days. Not counted within the official stats.
— Dr. Natalia 💉😷 (@SolNataMD) January 24, 2022
Demise charge (Our World in Knowledge):
Whole: 1,019,008 1,018,582. I’ve added an anti-triumphalist Fauci Line. Numbers nonetheless happening, nonetheless democidally excessive.
Covid circumstances in high us journey locations (Statista):
Nonetheless a bumpy trip…. (Notice the standard of those numbers varies wildly. The UK is terrible, France and Germany are higher.)
Stats Watch
There are not any official statistics of curiosity at this time.
Manufacturing: Hmm:
INSIDE A CHINESE SMARTPHONE | AMERICAN HONOR
U.S. components account for 40% of the product’s manufacturing price, a pointy rise versus the earlier mannequin. https://t.co/CjSrZFAXdR #Huawei
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) April 25, 2022
I can’t bust Nikkei’s paywall, however the important thing level is within the Tweet.
Labor Market: “Delta Air Strains to start out paying flight attendants throughout boarding” [Al Jazeera]. “Delta Air Strains, which has narrowly fought off a number of makes an attempt to unionise its flight attendants, will start paying cabin crews throughout boarding, a change that’s anticipated to extend their wages by a number of thousand {dollars} a yr. It’s a notable change for United States airways, the place pay for flight attendants begins when all of the passengers are seated and the airplane’s doorways shut.” • That’s ridiculous! I believed flight attendants had a union!
As we speak’s Worry & Greed Index: 31 Worry (earlier shut: 27 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 48 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Apr 27 at 10:00 AM EDT. ZOMG they modified the paintings!
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. File Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 188. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is good.)
The Gallery
Sundown:
Venetian Scene, 1879 #tonalism #jamesmcneillwhistler pic.twitter.com/hCEorv6gDX
— James Whistler (@artist_whistler) April 25, 2022
Heck, extra orange:
Claude Monet
Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, automne, 1891
oil on canvas
101 x 65.7 cm
Non-public assortment pic.twitter.com/xBMnyyCaFJ— Olga Tuleninova 🦋 (@olgatuleninova) April 25, 2022
Class Warfare
Glorious. A really hopeful signal:
Breaking: Undergraduate college students at Grinnell School simply received the primary wall-to-wall undergraduate union within the United State in a landslide 327 to six vote.
The union will cowl each hourly pupil office, in eating halls & elsewhere on campus.https://t.co/gksSSipdc5
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) April 26, 2022
I bear in mind this anecdote. Good to see it re-surface:
From a Dissent interview with Barbara Ehrenreich in 2019. pic.twitter.com/B5I2wvD5NO
— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) April 17, 2022
Identification politics is loss of life to solidarity. That’s why it pays so effectively.
Information of the Wired
I appear to not be wired at this time. Dang!
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