By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Affected person readers, an preliminary rethink of the Covid part took far more time than I believed, so I’ll once more break my rule and do some updates within the Politics part. –lambert
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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
“Jan. 6 committee is not going to make any prison referrals, chairman says” [NBC (ChrisRUEcon)]. Others, nonetheless, disagree. “The chair of the Home committee investigating the Capitol riot mentioned Monday evening that the panel is not going to make any prison referrals, though its leaders have beforehand hinted at the opportunity of doing so. ‘Our job is to take a look at the information and circumstances round January 6 — what prompted it — and make suggestions after that,’ Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., advised reporters as he left the Home chamber after the second day of public hearings by the panel. When pressed on the matter and whether or not the committee had dominated out the opportunity of referring prison expenses, significantly for former President Donald Trump, Thompson replied: ‘We don’t have authority.’” Thanks, Nancy! “However the committee’s vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., urged afterward Monday {that a} resolution was not but last. ‘The committee has not issued a conclusion relating to potential prison referrals. We are going to announce a call on that at an applicable time,’ she mentioned in a press release on Twitter. Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., tweeted in a separate assertion, that the committee ‘has but to vote,’ on recommending prison referrals.” • If the committee places collectively a concept of case through which Trump broke the regulation, then — “rule of regulation!!!!”, “our democracy!!!!” — in fact there must be a prison referral, wtf. The rest would give the unlucky impression that every one the Democrats had been doing was re-impeaching Trump over the identical set of occasions, simply two years later.
“Pelosi’s Courtroom: How the Jan. 6 Committee Undermined its Personal Legitimacy” [Jonathan Turley, The Hill]. “There’s appreciable proof that Trump’s individuals deliberate for a certification problem, however that was at all times anticipated….. Certainly, if opposing views had been allowed [come on], then Republicans probably would name for the testimony of committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who voted to problem the certification of the 2004 outcomes of President George W. Bush’s reelection; committee member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sought to problem Trump’s certification in 2016. Each did so below the very regulation that Trump’s congressional supporters utilized in 2020. And Pelosi and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Unwell.) praised the problem organized by then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in 2004. The distinction, in fact, is that whereas there have been violent protests in 2016 in Washington, there was not a riot that breached the Capitol.”
Biden Administration
“White Home Plans Saudi Arabia Journey However Says It’s Not About Oil” [Bloomberg]. • Not The Onion. After the headline author wrote that, they in all probability needed to go away for the day.
2022
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UPDATE “Younger Voters, Who Helped Biden to Victory, Are a Massive Weak Spot within the Democratic Coalition” [Morning Consult]. “America’s youngest voters accounted for the most important turnout enhance of any age group between the previous two presidential elections, serving to ship full management of Washington to President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats. However with just below 5 months till the midterm elections, it’s this group of voters who current a significant problem for the Democratic Get together’s fraught efforts to carry onto Congress this yr: Morning Seek the advice of Political Intelligence monitoring reveals Biden’s decline is very grim amongst 18- to 34-year-olds. The Democrats amongst them are much less probably than their older friends to see him as prioritizing the nation’s greatest issues or holding true to his marketing campaign guarantees, threatening to stunt base enthusiasm forward of the consequential marketing campaign season.” • If I had been 18, that $600 Biden owes me would have made an actual distinction.
UPDATE ME: “Maine Prosecutor Election Unfolds Underneath the Shadow of State’s Battle on Medication” [Bolts]. “The boundaries of prosecutorial reform have shifted not too long ago as some DAs have drawn a starker line towards low-level medication prosecutions. In Maine, many advocates are now not glad with making the prison authorized system much less extreme. They need prosecutors to thoroughly butt out of substance use, and have pushed the state to shift sources towards social companies and therapy packages that function exterior of the prison authorized system….. Maine gave the impression to be on its technique to an overhaul final June when the Home handed LD 967, a invoice that might have made drug possession a civil violation slightly than a prison offense. However the invoice was ultimately downed by the opposition of the Maine Prosecutors’ Affiliation and the probably veto of Democratic Governor Janet Mills, a former prosecutor.”
UPDATE OR: “After Bitter Loss, Ousted Centrist Democrat Goes After Get together That Backed Him” [HuffPo]. “Schrader additionally revealed within the interview that there’s a “important likelihood” he’ll endorse unbiased centrist Betsy Johnson’s gubernatorial marketing campaign, slightly than backing Democratic nominee Tina Kotek, the previous speaker of the state’s Home of Representatives.” • It’s definitely odd how social gathering loyalty solely appears to run a technique.
PA: “John Fetterman’s new marketing campaign supervisor is Philly-based Biden alum Brendan McPhillips” [Philadelphia Inquirer (Michael Ismoe)]. “Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has employed a Philadelphia-based veteran of President Joe Biden’s 2020 marketing campaign to guide his U.S. Senate run within the common election. Brendan McPhillips, a Democratic strategist who ran Biden’s marketing campaign in Pennsylvania, will turn out to be Fetterman’s marketing campaign supervisor, the marketing campaign mentioned Monday. McPhillips ran Pete Buttigieg’s Democratic presidential marketing campaign in Iowa and has recognized Fetterman since 2015.” • First response: Yech! After consideration, right here’s McPhillips’s bio:
McPhillips started a profession in politics instantly after graduating school. His expertise engaged on nationwide campaigns consists of Pennsylvania political director for the 2016 Clinton marketing campaign and regional discipline director for the 2012 Obama marketing campaign. McPhillips has additionally labored on gubernatorial and Congressional campaigns, together with Andrew Gillum’s (D) 2018 main marketing campaign in Florida, John Fetterman’s (D) 2016 U.S. Senate marketing campaign, and Kevin Strouse’s (D) U.S. Home marketing campaign.
Similar response. That mentioned, Fetterman received the first (and his all-important model) by visiting each Pennsylvania county, regardless of how pink. That was the cornerstone of his enchantment. All he actually needed to do was hold stating that Oz was actually from New Jersey. So why tamper with success? One cause is that hiring McPhillips makes it slighltly much less probably that the Democrats will knife him. I’d speculate, nonetheless, that his stroke debilitated him greater than we all know (and there are the dreaded life-style modifications, too).. Fetterman’s main floor battle will need to have been bodily gruelling: Plenty of journey, numerous dangerous meals… and plenty of hazard of Covid. Fetterman’s acquired the money for a much less gruelling air battle, and it takes a professional to arrange such a factor. We’ll see if I’m proper when Fetterman will get again on the path, nonetheless gingerly.
2024
“Liz Cheney for President?” [Robert Reich]. “In her braveness and integrity, Cheney — though conservative — jogs my memory of Senator Paul Wellstone, one of the crucial progressive politicians I’ve ever recognized. Additionally they have in frequent a love of democracy.” • AAAAAUGGHGH!!!! Assist me!!!!!!! My eyes!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE “Biden’s age can be ‘main subject’ if he runs once more, Axelrod says” [The Hill]. “Former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod warned that President Biden’s age may very well be a ‘main subject’ within the 2024 presidential election. ‘The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark actuality is the president can be nearer to 90 than 80 on the finish of a second time period, and that might be a significant subject,’ Axelrod advised The New York Instances of 79-year-old Biden. ‘ and , and this has fed a story about competence that isn’t rooted in actuality,’ he added.” • Ouch. Obama’s faction throws Biden below the bus?
Democrats en Déshabillé
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated publish, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “stay” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together 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 Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working components of the Get together reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Get together (ka-ching, however not completely) 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.
Word, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
* * * UPDATE “A brand new Latino media group is shopping for up — and shaking up — Spanish-language radio” [WLRN (Miami)]. “Univision is promoting a lot of its Spanish-language radio stations — together with Miami’s ultraconservative Radio Mambí — to a gaggle led by Democrats. Making a beachhead in a broadcast market usually dominated by conservative or right-wing programming, a brand new and Latino-owned, bipartisan however Democrat-led media group will announce Friday it’s buying 18 main Spanish-language radio stations owned by the TelevisaUnivision community — together with Miami’s Radio Mambí… WLRN has realized that the Latino Media Community, or LMN — headed by Stephanie Valencia, a Latino outreach director for former President Barack Obama, and Democratic activist Jess Morales Rocketto — has signed a ‘definitive settlement’ to purchase the stations for $60 million. The media startup has launched after elevating an preliminary $80 million. The AM and FM stations are positioned in 10 of the nation’s largest Latino markets, together with Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston and Las Vegas. LMN says it has secured financing from “main Latino buyers” in addition to Lakestar Finance, an funding group related to businessman-philanthropist George Soros…. The gross sales should nonetheless meet Federal Communications Fee (FCC) approval earlier than LMN can totally function the stations. That course of might final effectively into 2023.” • Properly, that is the Democrat reply to shedding the Latin vote: A platform for higher messaging. Now, I’m not gonna shed tears if any irredentist Cuban radio stations disappear from the airwaves. However can’t Soros keep on with screwing up Jap Europe?
UPDATE Obama Legacy
“My Remarks on the 2022 Copenhagen Democracy Summit” [Barack Obama]. Obama beginning to slot in very effectively with the globalists, one sees, together with his basis and all (“younger leaders”). Right here’s the opening paragraph:
Thanks. Thanks. Properly, thanks, Sahra-Josephine, for that introduction, and the work that you’re doing. And I need to thank my previous buddy, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, for internet hosting me and our Obama Basis leaders right here in the present day. It’s great to see all of you and I’m assured that there have been discussions which have been going down since this convention started.
(Jogs my memory of one thing….)
I ought to actually placed on my yellow waders for this one, however this paragraph caught my eye;
I consider a real democracy have to be rooted within the core precept that every one individuals, no matter their race, faith, ethnicity, sexual orientation, bodily capability, financial standing — all individuals have an inviolable dignity and value, and that and deserve equal therapy within the eyes of the regulation. That to me is a core precept of democracy.
Humorous, I might have sworn democracy was about “the individuals” (not “individuals”) governing themselves. “Of the individuals, by the individuals, for the individuals,” because the previous noticed has it.
Realignment and Legitimacy
UPDATE “We Did not Defend Abortion Rights. We Want a Labor-Primarily based Technique” [Jacobin]. “The US proper has challenged [Roe v. Wade] for years within the streets and within the courts, state by state. The story of the tip of Roe is the story of probably the most organized, militant, and profitable conservative social motion of the previous fifty years. In the long run, the Democratic Get together didn’t cease them. Neither did the reproductive rights and the social justice nonprofits that so many depend upon for well being care and authorized help. Am I indignant with the Proper? Oh, sure…. However this consequence was completely anticipated. Consequently, I’m now angrier with the abortion rights motion — from leftists to liberal Democrats. Now that Roe is nearly lifeless, I’d prefer to be clear about why. Seventy % of the US inhabitants helps abortion rights. The truth that we’ve got misplaced these rights to a minority coalition ought to immediate self-criticism. It’s our accountability to place collectively a majority coalition that may safeguard fundamental reproductive rights. It’s our accountability to border the problem in a method that challenges tradition battle narratives with a universalist program that advocates for these rights. We didn’t.”
UPDATE “Elephant In The Zoom” [The Intercept]. The deck: “Meltdowns Have Introduced Progressive Advocacy Teams to a Standstill at a Crucial Second in World Historical past.” This text is a horror story in regards to the inner workings of NGOs, and effectively price a learn, particularly in the event you like horror tales. However I believe the article sums up the problem with NGOs in a single sentence: “The reliance of so many organizations on basis funding slightly than member donations is central to the upheavals the teams have seen lately, one group chief mentioned, as a result of the teams aren’t accountable to the general public for failing to perform something, so long as the inspiration flows proceed.” As I’ve usually mentioned: Euthanize the NGOs.
UPDATE “The scandal embroiling Washington’s most venerable suppose tank, defined” [Vox]. “The scandal surrounding Allen’s resignation reveals how overseas and company pursuits have a much bigger function in policy-idea manufacturing than we have a tendency to understand, and the way comparatively little scrutiny the capital’s suppose tanks obtain regardless of their outsize affect in policymaking.” And: “One central query is whether or not this scandal will immediate any broader reckoning with the best way coverage concepts are generated within the nation’s capital. • BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
#COVID19
Lambert right here: I’m however a humble tape-watcher, and I’m perplexed in regards to the present state of play. Case knowledge is exhibiting the fiddling-and-diddling conduct attribute of a peak; alternatively, the South (house of Abbot and DeSantis) is rising. Additional, nothing I hear in anecdotal case knowledge tells me there’s any aid. Hospitalization knowledge (trailing) is easing (and so the hospital-centric public well being institution in all probability thinks Covid is finished). Positivity knowledge (main) has been fiddling and diddling because it too does at peaks (newest, down). Then once more, waste-water knowledge (main) is up in all places however the Northeast. The wild card is variants BA.4/5 (and I believed we had been purported to be giving names to those issues). All of the variant sources I’ve say BA.4/5 are up, however they differ as to how a lot and the place, and the information is 2 weeks behind (hat tip, CDC; who might have recognized we’d want to trace variant knowledge?). I’m reminded of the “stairstep” (see the Case depend chart under: I muttered about this on the time) that marked the Delta/Omicron transition, simply earlier than Omicron’s wonderful take-off. Maybe a BA.4/5 transition will exhibit the identical conduct. OTOH, I may very well be projecting patterns into clouds. The longer term lies forward!
• ”UK at begin of latest Covid wave pushed by BA.4 and BA.5, new knowledge suggests” [MSN]. “If you happen to thought Covid-19 was lifeless and gone, suppose once more. Early indicators point out that the UK could also be at the beginning of a brand new wave of Covid infections pushed by BA.4 and BA.5… In accordance with preliminary knowledge by Kei Sato on the College of Tokyo and colleagues, BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 might have advanced to re-favour an infection of lung cells, slightly than higher respiratory tract tissue – making them extra just like earlier variants, reminiscent of Alpha or Delta. The propensity of earlier Omicron variants to want infecting non-lung tissue could also be one cause why infections are usually milder in most individuals.” The article concludes: “With luck, BA.4 and BA.5 will current only a minor blip within the UK’s transition out of the Covid disaster. However their emergence is a reminder that easy crusing is on no account assured.” • ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
• Smile!
Facemasks are now not required in our hospitals, with a number of exceptions (see the hyperlink under).
They may nonetheless be accessible for many who would favor to put on one.
Let the member of workers caring for you recognize if you need them to put on a masks.https://t.co/pPDj6wP4sK pic.twitter.com/dQzMzvu16m
— Cambridge College Hospitals NHS (@CUH_NHS) June 13, 2022
• Mind injury thought of not extreme by CDC:
CDC straight-out says “there are not any studies of extreme illness” after Paxlovid rebound.
Mind fog for months might not depend as extreme, however for anybody who relies on good mind perform for a dwelling, that is fairly worrisome.https://t.co/OEdVBfxbsg pic.twitter.com/NZBLrlWb8x
— Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 (@michaelzlin) June 14, 2022
• “Xavier Becerra isolating in Sacramento after testing optimistic for COVID-19 throughout LA summit” [Sacramentoo Bee]. “U.S. Well being and Human Providers Secretary Xavier Becerra examined optimistic Monday for COVID-19 in Sacramento, the secretary’s second an infection in a month…. ‘He’s totally vaccinated and boosted towards COVID-19, and is experiencing signs,’ [Health and Human Services spokeswoman Sarah Lovenheim] wrote. ‘He’ll proceed to carry out his duties as HHS Secretary, working in isolation.’” • First I’ve heard from Becerra in months; I used to be questioning if he was OK. Apparently not. Oh, and we all know what “gentle” means. Then there’s this:
Becerra was simply in LA for the Summit of the Americas. Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau additionally simply examined optimistic for COVID-19 after coming house fro the summit
— Ariel Cohen (@ArielCohen37) June 13, 2022
Makes you marvel if the Summit of the Americas was a kind of superspreader occasions PMCs like a lot. Superspreader occasions like these–
• “The irony — and ignominy — of medical conferences as superspreader occasions” [STAT]. “In the course of the second week in Might, the Society for Educational Emergency Drugs (SAEM), a big medical group, held its annual assembly in individual in New Orleans… Organizers of the convention reported anticipating greater than 3,000 attendees, one of many largest occasions the society had ever hosted, and social media photos from convention occasions confirmed massive, carefully packed indoor crowds in shut contact and with out masks on…. With circumstances and hospitalizations rising in lots of components of the nation, together with New Orleans, and a group vaccination price of round 50% for the host metropolis, attending a big, multi-day, indoor assembly with after-hours socializing locally posed quite a few security dangers. Actually, a computing convention held in New Orleans the prior week was below scrutiny as a excessive transmission occasion. But the SAEM’s Covid coverage was not modified to mirror contemporaneous public well being knowledge. Nor did the organizers implement a vaccine verification system, require boosters, or incorporate a Covid-19 testing technique. . The three of us didn’t attend the convention in individual, and are grateful for making that call. The week after the convention, information of Covid-19 circumstances started circulating amongst our colleagues. Some shared tales of changing into ailing, others described how they had been pulled in to cowl the shifts of others who had been struck by Covid. To provide you with a back-of-the-envelope estimate, we reached out informally to fifteen emergency drugs packages throughout the nation to see what number of of their attending physicians, fellows, residents, and analysis workers attended the convention and what number of circumstances had been thought to have resulted from the convention. . Whereas there are a lot of caveats to the information (it’s a nonrandom, comfort pattern, the information are self-reported estimates), they recommend that .” • Don’t fear. All of the circumstances are gentle. (STAT has to do a “again of the envelope” calcuation as a result of the USA isn’t a critical nation, and there’s no such factor as contact tracing.)
If you happen to missed it, right here’s a publish on my queasiness with CDC numbers, particularly case depend, which I (nonetheless) take into account most necessary, regardless of what Walensky’s psychos at CDC who invented “group ranges” suppose. However these are the numbers we’ve got.
Case depend by United States areas:
Stage, roughly. Do not forget that circumstances are undercounted, one supply saying by an element of six, Gottlieb pondering we solely choose up one in seven or eight.) Therefore, I take the case depend and multiply it by six to approximate the true degree of circumstances, and draw the blue “Biden Line” at that time. Yesterday, the depend was 107,700. Right this moment, it’s 100,800, and 100,800 * 6 = a Biden line at 604,800. At the very least we’ve got affirmation that the extraordinary mass of case anecdotes had a foundation in actuality. (Bear in mind these knowledge factors are weekly averages, so every day fluctuations are smoothed out.) The black “Fauci Line” is a counter to triumphalism, because it compares present ranges to previous crises.
Listed here are circumstances for the final 4 weeks:
Stage.
And within the South:
(US Census area: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.)
(Miami-Dade County, inhabitants 2.706 million; Palm Seaside County, inhabitants 1.482 million.)
From the Walgreen’s check positivity tracker:
Down 1.9%. This tracker fiddles and diddles at peaks, but additionally not at peaks. (I’m leaving the company emblem on as a slap to and examine on the goons at CDC.)
NOT UPDATED MWRA wastewater knowledge:
Each South and North down. NOTE: I believe I’m going to kill this one off (for now). With variants, I’ve too many charts.
The Massachusetts Water Sources Authority (MWRA) service space consists of 43 municipalities in and round Boston, together with not solely a number of faculty techniques however a number of massive universities. Since Boston is so very education-heavy, then, I believe it may very well be a superb main indicator for Covid unfold in colleges usually.
Circumstances lag wastewater knowledge.
Wastewater knowledge from Biobot Analytics:
Variant knowledge, regional (Biobot), Might 25:
Variant knowledge, nationwide (Walgreens), Might 28:
Variant knowledge, nationwide (CDC), Might 28. With out their silly mannequin:
You’ll word that the variant knowledge differs by supply. Furthermore, the information is 2 weeks previous. Not good!
From CDC Neighborhood Profile Reviews (PDFs), “Fast Riser” counties:
Establishment; South a little bit improved.
The earlier launch:
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:
West Coast, and Midwest are all pink. Seeing some orange (“substantial”) on the East Coast. Nice Plains speckled with yellow and blue. Go Vermont!
Hospitalization (CDC Neighborhood Profile):
Very unstable.
Dying price (Our World in Information):
Complete: 1,036,084 1,035,847. I’ve added an anti-triumphalist Fauci Line.
Covid circumstances in high us journey locations (Statista):
Word the standard of those numbers varies wildly. For instance, the UK is slicing again on testing knowledge. NOTE I believe I’m going to kill this one off. With variants, I’ve too many charts.
Stats Watch
Employment State of affairs:
Bizarre labor market datapoint of the week: ADP says employers are getting wordier of their job descriptions, presumably to convey to recruits how wonderful it’s to work there. pic.twitter.com/Y5FwMcLbJv
— Lydia DePillis (@lydiadepillis) June 13, 2022
Inflation: “United States Producer Worth Inflation MoM” [Trading Economics]. “Producer costs within the US elevated 0.8% mother in Might of 2022, following a 0.4% rise in April and matching forecasts. Costs of products went up 1.4% with the most important leap reported for gasoline (8.4%) adopted by jet gas, residential pure gasoline, metal mill merchandise, diesel gas, and processed younger chickens.”
Zeitgeist Watch: “United States NFIB Enterprise Optimism Index” [Trading Economics]. “The NFIB Small Enterprise Optimism Index in the USA edged right down to 93.1 in Might of 2022, the bottom since April of 2020, and in comparison with 93.2 in April. The share of householders anticipating higher enterprise situations over the subsequent six months hit a report low.”
Zeitgeist Watch: “United States IBD/TIPP Financial Optimism Index” [Trading Economics]. “The IBD/TIPP Financial Optimism Index within the US fell to 38.1 in June of 2022 from 41.2 within the earlier month, the bottom since August 2011…. In the meantime, family monetary stress hit the best degree since April 2020, on the outset of the pandemic, as gasoline costs hit new data fueled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the inflation price hit a brand new 40-year-high 8.6%.”
Right this moment’s Worry & Greed Index: 18 Excessive Worry (earlier shut: 28 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 29 (Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 13 at 1:20 PM EDT.
Rapture Index: Closes up one on Curiosity Charges. “Charges are being pushed up by greater inflation” [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 188. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is good.)
Groves of Academe
“Professors Want the Energy to Fireplace Variety Bureaucrats” [The Atlantic]. • Why cease there?
The Conservatory
Fairly the rhythm part these guys have (hat tip wukchumni):
The Gallery
“‘She was the true pioneer.’ Marisol and Andy Warhol share the pop artwork limelight at PAMM” [Miami Herald]. “She was a sculptor, delicate spoken and glamorous. Her work was featured in New York Metropolis’s greatest galleries. Magazines known as her mysterious. Andy Warhol known as her a buddy. And although she performed a key function the pop artwork motion of the ‘60s, her contributions had been largely forgotten. Her title was Marisol, and he or she’s getting her due on the Pérez Artwork Museum Miami…. The aim of the present is to ‘place Marisol again into the pop artwork origin story of New York,; mentioned Maritza Lacayo, assistant curator at PAMM.” • Instance:
Police State Watch
“Texas Police Need Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed As a result of It Might Expose Legislation Enforcement ‘Weak point’” [Vice]. • Why, it’s virtually as if they’ve one thing to cover. Are we positive the gunman shot all the kids?
Information of the Wired
Location in Google; I don’t suppose that is human-made:
Ḥa’il Province, Saudi Arabia (28.4°N 41.6°E), 26 Might 2022 pic.twitter.com/xJetOOPHBb
— Sentinel 2 Bot (@Sentinel2Bot) June 14, 2022
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