2:00PM Water Cooler 7/15/2024 | naked capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Hen Track of the Day

Widespread Nightingale, Taliouline, Morocco. 28 minutes of nightingale, so seize a cup of espresso.

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In Case You Would possibly Miss…

(1) Cannon throws out Smith’s case.

(2) Trump’s would-be murderer appeared in a Blackrock advert.

(3) Unelecting Biden: How’s that going?

(4) Responses to chicken flu nonetheless absurdly sluggish….

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Politics

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

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The Constitutional Order (Immunity)

“Supreme Court docket ruling on presidential immunity is extra restricted than it seems” [The Hill]. “The brand new rule of ‘absolute immunity’ states that when the Structure grants the president ‘conclusive and preclusive’ energy — that means that the Structure delegates a selected authorities perform to the chief department alone — the legislative department can’t make any legal guidelines, together with legal legal guidelines, to limit him. So the president can’t be prosecuted for a veto or an appointment, for instance. The president can be ‘presumptively immune’ for ‘official acts’ if a prosecution would intrude on govt department energy. To reveal that this rule is slim, consider the argument proposed by the dissenting justices {that a} president who levels a coup, assassinates a rival, or takes a bribe in change for a pardon would now be immune from prosecution. None of those hypothetical truth patterns would qualify for ‘absolute immunity,’ as a result of every includes competing Constitutional powers. In such instances, the president’s acts wouldn’t be ‘conclusive and preclusive.’ Every would additionally contain unofficial conduct, which stays totally prosecutable. Presumptive immunity could be overcome for a similar causes. The particular holdings within the Trump ruling underscore this view. For instance, the courtroom held Trump immune for threatening to take away his lawyer basic if he didn’t adjust to illegal acts. Though this sounds disconcerting at first blush, the courtroom determined solely whether or not Trump is immune for alleged discussions together with his personal lawyer basic. The courtroom didn’t maintain, nonetheless, {that a} president could be immune for exercising the fearsome powers of the Division of Justice to extort state officers into corruptly overturning an election (the equal of a coup).”

Trump Assassination Try

“BlackRock Says Gunman From Trump Rally Appeared in Agency’s Advert” [Bloomberg]. “Crooks was one among a number of college students who appeared within the background of the 2022 advert and was unpaid, BlackRock, the world’s largest cash supervisor, mentioned in a press release. The advert was filmed at Bethel Park Excessive College, the place Crooks graduated in 2022, and featured a instructor, the corporate mentioned.” • If Crooks was certainly a “troubled loner,” he appears to be a socially competent one. Odd:

BlackRock pulls advert that featured Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks https://t.co/24ViyLsLGj pic.twitter.com/y6xCpp2wGk

— New York Submit (@nypost) July 15, 2024

Blackrock definitely wasn’t on my Bingo card!

“Grateful, defiant Trump recounts surviving ‘surreal’ assassination try at rally: ‘I’m speculated to be useless’” [New York Post]. “‘Lots of people say it’s essentially the most iconic photograph they’ve ever seen,’ Trump mentioned. ‘They’re proper and I didn’t die. Normally you need to die to have an iconic image.’ He added, ‘I simply wished to maintain talking, however I simply bought shot.’” • “Iconic.” Referred to as it 🙂

“The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator” [David Frum, The Atlantic]. “Fascism feasts on violence… Now the bloodshed that Trump has carried out a lot to incite towards others has touched him as nicely.” • I love struggle legal David Frum‘s dedication to the bit. By no means thoughts that we don’t even know the murderer’s motive; Carl Schmitt is the chef who served up the fascist smorgasbord from which each events are feasting. If, as Schmitt has it, the central theme of politics is the good friend/enemy distinction, Democrats, by loudly declaring Trump to be the following Hitler, have supplied anybody sufficiently gullible with a motive for assassination. In spite of everything, in case you can’t return in time and kill child Hitler, why not kill the true one within the right here and now? The tendency of liberals to want loss of life on their enemies is well-known (see Stoller, “On Mocking Dying Working Class White Folks“). As for instance:

Granted, the Hampton’s aren’t the nation, however “The concepts of the ruling class are in each epoch the ruling concepts.” Or:

Sitting at outside restaurant in Hamptons as waitress advised us what occurred , plenty of feedback from different tables from very nicely off individuals about ” What did Trump assume would occur behaving like he does ? “

— GardinerIslandCapital (@GardinerIsland) July 14, 2024

“Each side are proper / However each side homicide / I quit / Why can’t they?” –X, I Should Not Suppose Dangerous Ideas

“‘BlueAnon’ conspiracy theories flood social media after Trump rally taking pictures” [WaPo]. The deck: “Researchers who monitor on-line conspiracies say liberals are more and more weak to — and producing — QAnon-like bursts of misinformation.” After RussiaGate? You don’t say. Extra: “Minutes after Saturday’s taking pictures at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., liberals started flooding social media platforms with conspiracy theories. They claimed the blood on former president Donald Trump’s ear was from a theatrical gel pack; that the taking pictures was a ‘false flag,’ maybe coordinated by the Secret Service in collaboration with the Trump marketing campaign; that the scene of a bloodied Trump elevating his fist below an American flag was ‘#staged.’ ‘When did the Secret Service begin permitting the President below duress to inform them ‘to attend’, then stand as much as be seen by the group fist-pumping?” one person posted on X. “Are you able to blame me for considering that is pretend?’ The taking pictures threw into overdrive a phenomenon dubbed ‘BlueAnon’ — a play on the right-wing conspiracy idea QAnon — that refers to liberal conspiracy theories on-line. As extra People lose belief in mainstream establishments and switch to partisan commentators and influencers for info, specialists say they’re seeing a giant uptick within the manufacture and unfold of BlueAnon conspiracy theories, an indication that the communal warping of actuality is spreading nicely past the proper. ‘The [Schmittian] good-versus-evil paradigm of QAnon has actually taken maintain of the anti-Trump motion and also you’re seeing two sides that really feel like they’re preventing a battle between good and evil,’ mentioned Mike Rothschild, writer of “The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Grew to become a Motion, Cult and Conspiracy Idea of The whole lot.’” • Musical interlude.

2024

Lower than a half a yr to go!

Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages: CTUTP

Second post-debate polling: No huge swing to Trump that I can see. It will be hilarious if the Biden Debate debacle had precisely the identical impact as Trump’s 34 bazillion felony convictions, i.e., none, each events are so dug in. In fact, the Biden “buzz” (yesterday) is dangerous, and will but have an impact. And who, might I ask, is making the thrill? Swing States (extra right here) nonetheless Brownian-motioning round. In fact, it goes with out saying that these are all state polls, due to this fact dangerous, and a lot of the outcomes are inside the margin of error.

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Unelecting Biden:

The Calendar

“Trump rally taking pictures upends Democrats’ Biden disaster” [Axios]. “Congressional Democrats’ all-consuming angst over President Biden’s candidacy has taken an abrupt backseat in lawmakers’ minds within the wake of an assassination try towards former President Trump. Democratic lawmakers say their instant focus is on their private safety and that of their staffs, not on their get together’s political woes, serving to to permit a vital cooldown interval for the embattled president. A second senior Home Democrat advised Axios that the Trump taking pictures has taken a few of the warmth off as a result of it might ‘be dangerous type to make any statements towards President Biden.’ One other Biden-skeptical Democrat, requested about lingering questions across the president’s candidacy, advised Axios: ‘I don’t assume that’s the main target proper now.’…Most lawmakers who spoke to Axios mentioned it’s too early to say whether or not the cessation in tensions will final till the Democratic Nationwide Conference subsequent month. However the second senior Home Democrat provided one cause for why it would: ‘We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.’” • Not with a bang however a whimper? As a result of the stakes, objectively, are precisely the identical after Trump’s assassination as earlier than.

The DNC

“Democrats’ Foremost Skilled on Occasion Guidelines Explains How Biden May Be Changed” [Politico]. Elaine Kamarck is a longtime member of the DNC’s guidelines committee and a scholar on the centrist Brookings Establishment. “‘The explanation individuals tear their hair out is that individuals don’t notice that the enterprise of nominating a presidential candidate is in the end get together enterprise,’ Kamarck mentioned. And the get together decides.” From July 13, although it looks as if every week in the past: “I feel if [Biden] was inclined to get out, he ought to do it as quickly as doable earlier than the conference in order that the get together can type out who desires to run. And at this level, I don’t assume there’s lots of people who need to run. I feel that if he desires to get out, he ought to do it quickly and let the get together come collectively round Vice President Harris or maybe anyone else, and do it in time for there to be a superb conference. Keep in mind that the conference planning is happening. They’re writing a platform, they’re already selecting audio system.” • If changing Biden with Harris have been straightforward, it might have have already got occurred. So, who else? When? How?

Electeds

“Playbook: Can Trump pivot — and may Biden run out the clock?” [Politico]. “Not a single Democrat has joined the hassle calling for Biden to step apart since Saturday’s horrific occasions. And given the laborious sharp flip towards unity and safety, few count on these numbers to develop within the coming days — particularly with the press targeted on the taking pictures and the Republican conference, reasonably than Biden. It’s optimistic information for the embattled president, who — with 5 weeks till the Democratic conference — appears intent on working out the clock. Even Democrats who need Biden to step apart at the moment are resigned to the notion that he’s right here to remain. ‘I feel that is over,’ one Democratic aide advised us, arguing that the information cycle was what was crushing Biden — and the story has now moved on…. many proceed to observe former Speaker NANCY PELOSI, the one individual many assume might shift the tide. ‘Sooner or later, Pelosi has to fish or reduce bait right here,’ one Democratic aide.” • What fish? What bait?

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Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Decide dismisses Trump’s Mar-a-Lago labeled docs legal case” [Politico]. “Underneath Cannon’s view, the Justice Division lacks a authorized foundation to convey non-public attorneys into the division to move up particular counsel investigations. Her conclusion would have nixed the appointment of Robert Mueller, named in 2017 to look at allegations of ties between Trump’s presidential marketing campaign and Russia, in addition to that of Robert Hur, chosen final yr to analyze President Joe Biden’s dealing with of labeled information. Another particular counsels named from the division’s present ranks of prosecutors, although, wouldn’t have been impacted. Smith’s crew argued that the historical past of such appointments over the previous quarter century meant Congress had blessed such preparations, however Cannon disagreed.” • No nice loss. Was it Mueller liberal Democrats have been naming their canines after? Right here is Cannon’s opinion (PDF):

Right here is the Appointments Clause, Article II, Part 2, Clause 2:

He shall have Energy, by and with the Recommendation and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, supplied two thirds of the Senators current concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Recommendation and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, different public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court docket, and all different Officers of america, whose Appointments should not herein in any other case supplied for, and which shall be established by Regulation: however the Congress might by Regulation vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they assume correct, within the President alone, within the Courts of Regulation, or within the Heads of Departments.

The Authorized Data Institute’s interpretation:

By default, the Appointments Clause requires that every one “Officers of america” be appointed by the President with the recommendation and consent of the Senate.1 Nevertheless, the Clause authorizes Congress to vest the appointment of “inferior Officers,” at its discretion, “within the President alone, within the Courts of Regulation, or within the Heads of Departments.” 2 Due to this language, the Supreme Court docket has acknowledged two lessons of officers: (1) principal officers, who have to be appointed by the President with the Senate’s recommendation and consent; and (2) inferior officers, whose appointment Congress might assign to the President alone, the courts, or a division head. This dichotomy has led to questions on whether or not there are constitutionally important variations between principal and inferior officers.

I don’t perceive why Smith isn’t an “inferior officer,” however apparently that’s not Cannon’s view. Maybe authorized experts within the commentariat can remark.

Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Decide dismisses labeled paperwork case towards Donald Trump” [Financial Times]. “Cannon’s ruling echoed misgivings in regards to the DoJ particular counsel expressed by Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, who wrote in a concurring opinion within the presidential immunity case that he had ‘critical questions’ in regards to the constitutionality of the appointment. Smith is one among a number of particular counsels appointed lately to handle politically delicate investigations. A particular counsel oversaw the probe into Biden’s dealing with of labeled paperwork, whereas one other was named to analyze the conduct of Hunter Biden, the president’s son, who was later charged with gun and tax offences. The ruling from Cannon might jeopardise each federal legal instances. In the meantime, two different legal instances pending towards Trump in state courts are additionally hitting hurdles.” • Cannon’s ruling will be appealed.

Trump (R) (Smith/Cannon): “Decide dismisses Trump’s federal labeled docs case” [Axios]. “Trump, who at one level was staring down 4 legal instances, is now unlikely to face one other trial earlier than Election Day.” • So the lawfare technique crashed, and now the Democrats don’t appear to have one other. And but the race, as of final Friday, was nonetheless 50/50, in response to RCP averages. Wouldn’t it’s wonderful if that was true subsequent Friday?

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Trump (R): “”Playbook: Can Trump pivot — and may Biden run out the clock?” [Politico]. “1. Trump rewrote his conference speech to give attention to unity, he advised Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito, a Pittsburgh native who was on the rally and scheduled to interview the previous president afterward however as a substitute discovered herself shielding her daughter from flying bullets. Pre-shooting, the tackle he was planning to provide ‘was going to be a humdinger,’ he advised Zito, whom he referred to as up yesterday as a result of he felt dangerous about lacking her interview, we hear. ‘Actually, it’s going to be a complete totally different speech now,’ he continued. ‘It’s a likelihood to convey the nation collectively. I used to be on condition that likelihood.’ 2. Trump’s crew additionally spent a lot of yesterday reaching out to conference audio system and asking them to keep away from specializing in the taking pictures or blaming the left for it — and as a substitute middle their consideration on the basics of the marketing campaign. 3. The pivot was the brainchild of an early Sunday morning name with Susie Wiles, Chris LcvCivita, Jason Miller and pollster Tony Fabrizio. After hours of relentless and incendiary Republican assaults blaming Democrats for inciting the violence, the crew agreed the get together would wish a reset: The conference shouldn’t be in regards to the taking pictures however about drawing a distinction with President Joe Biden on the problems People care about most. Alittle later, simply earlier than 8 a.m., we’re advised Trump personally drafted his personal Reality Social submit adopting the ‘unify’ messaging and clicked ship. To know the problem of this pivot is to know simply how badly Trump’s crew desires to win. Sure, they’re upset in regards to the taking pictures — greater than upset: shaken, indignant, frightened. However in addition they know the second that they’re in. Proper now, Trump has the potential to turn into a way more sympathetic determine within the eyes of undecided voters. Utilizing the conference to mount an all-out assault on Democrats or entertain conspiracy theories might trigger that goodwill to evaporate as shortly because it appeared.” • Superb to assume that Trump may take the excessive street (as Vance didn’t). As I requested as soon as: Can Trump turn into a Face, after being a Heel for therefore lengthy? (Kayfabe: “A wrestler might change from face to heel (or vice versa) in an occasion often called a flip, or steadily transition from one to the opposite over the course of a protracted storyline.”)

Trump (R): “The low street, the excessive street, and the best way the wind blows” [Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin]. “Within the current second, [the assassination attempt] on the very least makes Trump far more sympathetic and undermines the implicit premise of the Biden marketing campaign to revive order and stability to America It maybe additionally unlocks a permission construction to vote for Trump amongst a sure kind of voter. Elon Musk and Invoice Ackman formally endorsed Trump within the wake of the taking pictures, for example. I don’t assume this can be a notably vital growth by itself, not least as a result of Musk and Ackman have been fairly clearly within the Trump camp to start with (even when they hadn’t admitted it publicly, and even to themselves). However these People within the pox-in-all-houses mindset — and there are a whole lot of them — may discover it simpler now to drag the lever for Trump. And Trump followers will now stroll over glass for his or her martyr.”

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Kennedy (I): “Calls develop for RFK Jr. to get Secret Service safety” [The Hill]. “Shortly after the taking pictures at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., the place the previous president was injured and one attendee was killed, political figures from each side of the aisle emphasised the necessity for Kennedy to obtain Secret Service safety.” • This could not be laborious to do, and even the molasses-brained Biden administration ought to have carried out it by now.

Kennedy (I): “Poll Entry HQ” [Kennedy Shanahan]. A formidable effort with some weaknesses. Petitioning is complet in purple states. However that doesn’t imply the ballots are accredited and Kenney is on the poll. Useful map:

To seek out out the place Kennedy is definitely on the poll, you need to click on on the person state (poor UI/UX). I clicked the swing states, and put a “☑️” on the states the place Kennedy has a poll line. Kennedy shouldn’t be on the poll in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Virginia. He’s on the poll in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

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“Solely an ‘October Shock’ can swing the presidential election” [The Hill]. “What, then, might trigger a decisive shift in Biden or Trump’s favor? Fairly merely, the reply is an outdoor occasion. Or, because it’s in any other case recognized, an October Shock. To that finish, on condition that Biden’s and Trump’s strengths and weaknesses are acquainted to voters, it’s extra possible {that a} actually pivotal October Shock comes within the type of a international coverage growth that both drastically helps or harms Biden…. All of that is to say that if there’s a main geopolitical disaster, Biden will play an outsized position. If he rises to the event, it’ll do extra to deal with issues over his health than nearly any press convention or marketing campaign rally ever might.” • Given early voting, “October” could also be too late. With a little bit extra time, I’d analysis the earliest early voting within the Swing States….

Our Famously Free Press

“‘Morning Joe’ pulled from air Monday due to Trump taking pictures” [CNN]. “The choice by MSNBC to go away one among its most recognizable applications on the sidelines amid a seismic politics-driven information cycle, with the Republican Nationwide Conference getting underway within the wake of the Saturday taking pictures at Trump’s marketing campaign rally, is for certain to boost eyebrows. An individual aware of the matter advised CNN that the choice was made to keep away from a situation through which one of many present’s steady of two dozen-plus company may make an inappropriate touch upon reside tv that might be used to assail this system and community as a complete. Given the breaking information nature of the story, the individual mentioned, it made extra sense to proceed airing rolling breaking information protection within the fraught political second.” • Anybody on Morning Joe from the Hamptons?

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; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the tackle given with the crops. 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 reviews); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Keep protected on the market!

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Transmission: Covid

Private threat evaluation:

If the chances have been like this 👇🏼For successful the lottery Everybody Would purchase a ticket https://t.co/gEhkG9asAq

— oeuf 👋🏻O (@mairE_keyL) July 13, 2024

Regional breakdown:

Ratio of individuals presently contaminated by area:

Midwest: 1 in 79 ⬆️South: 1 in 43 ⬆️Northest: 1 in 79 ⬆️West: 1 in 37 ➡️ pic.twitter.com/505zi2PaBt

— JWeiland (@JPWeiland) July 12, 2024

Transmission: H5N1

“Hen flu outbreak at Colorado farm as 5 employees reported optimistic: Specialists warn of ‘turning level,’ name for pressing motion” [Fortune]. “‘I’m extraordinarily involved that we’re getting ready to this being actually already in people—and as soon as it’s in people, it’ll be an actual drawback to manage,’ says Seema Lakdawala, a microbiologist and immunologist at Emory College who focuses on influenza. ‘I’ll inform you that what has been driving me the previous few months is attempting to stop H5 from changing into a pandemic…I’ve by no means felt that we have been as shut as we at the moment are.’ In its personal approach [lol], the CDC echoes that concern, referencing usually phrases the ‘pandemic potential’ of H5N1 and different novel flu viruses as soon as people are within the combine. However the company added that it hasn’t but seen genetic modifications within the virus that might make human transmission extra possible, and it continues to guage the danger to most people as low…. “There’s no such factor as just a bit conjunctivitis. or just a bit respiratory (subject) if you’re coping with a lethal virus,” [immunologist Rick Bright, a former federal health official] says. The virus, he provides, has already demonstrated the flexibility to mutate ‘very simply, in a short time, and it may well trigger extreme sickness and loss of life. So let’s cease it in its tracks, not wait and see and let it worsen.’ Whether or not the CDC will comply with the specialists’ strategies stays an open query. The company’s response to this point has been muted, with no change in official advice. For individuals who’ve been intently monitoring this chicken flu, although, the indicators are ominous, and so they warrant a proactive response-including vaccination of frontline farmworkers. ‘That’s why we now have these stockpiles,’ Seema Lackdawala says. ‘It’s shocking to me that they haven’t been leveraged…We all the time anticipated this in some unspecified time in the future in time.’” • Second verse, identical as the primary:

Rick shouldn’t be mistaken right here. That is unfolding extra slowly than Covid did, however in the very same manor. Lack of testing and visibility into the depth of unfold, media and Congress targeted on different points so no protection, and a sense that we’re ready for a dam to interrupt…🤦🏽‍♂️ https://t.co/8J73AsyKW9

— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) July 15, 2024

“Method,” however by no means thoughts!

Airborne Transmission: H5N1

“Experimental copy of viral replication and illness in dairy calves and lactating cows inoculated with extremely pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b” (preprint) [bioRxiv]. “We sought to experimentally reproduce an infection with genotype B3.13 in Holstein yearling heifers and lactating cows. The heifers have been inoculated by an aerosol respiratory route and the cows by an intramammary route. Scientific illness was gentle within the heifers, however an infection was confirmed by virus detection, lesions, and seroconversion. Scientific illness in lactating cows included decreased rumen motility, modifications to exploit look, and manufacturing losses in keeping with subject reviews of viral mastitis. An infection was confirmed by excessive ranges of viral RNA detected in milk, virus isolation, lesions in mammary tissue, and seroconversion. This examine supplies the muse to analyze extra routes of an infection, transmission, and intervention methods.” • Oh good.

Maskstravaganza

“An invisible masks? Wearable air curtain, handled to kill viruses, blocks 99.8% of aerosols” (press launch) [University of Michigan]. “An air curtain taking pictures down from the brim of a tough hat can stop 99.8% of aerosols from reaching a employee’s face. The know-how, created by College of Michigan startup Taza Aya, doubtlessly provides a brand new safety choice for employees in industries the place respiratory illness transmission is a priority. Unbiased, third-party testing of Taza Aya‘s machine confirmed the effectiveness of the air curtain, curved to encircle the face, coming from nozzles on the hat’s brim. However for the air curtain to successfully defend towards pathogens within the room, it should first be cleansed of pathogens itself. Earlier analysis by the group of Taza Aya co-founder Herek Clack, U-M affiliate professor of civil and environmental engineering, confirmed that their technique can take away and kill 99% of airborne viruses in farm and laboratory settings. ” And: “Taza Aya’s prototype encompasses a backpack, weighing roughly 10 kilos, that homes the nonthermal plasma module, air handler, electronics and the unit’s battery pack. The handler attracts air into the module, the place it’s handled earlier than flowing to the air curtain’s nozzle array.” And: “In October of that yr, Taza Aya was named an awardee within the Invisible Defend QuickFire Problem—a contest created by Johnson & Johnson Innovation in cooperation with the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers. This system sought to encourage the event of applied sciences that would defend individuals from airborne viruses whereas having a minimal influence on each day life.” • That is fairly neat. I’d prefer to see some Chinese language producers take the ball and run with it, and cut back the load of the backpack and begin promoting them for like 100 bucks.

5.3 million followers:

Aircraft be like…

Me be like…

We actually want to scrub up our indoor air, however till then thanks @zhouliang_mask! pic.twitter.com/LYXLvAscXh

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) July 13, 2024

Crypto bros not all dangerous?

Crypto bro boarding a aircraft with a CO2 monitor and a respirator and education his 5M+ followers on indoor air high quality and why catching airborne ailments is dangerous, really, was not on my cc bingo card, however apparently the co-founder of Ethereum is one among us. #YallMasking

— A. 🇵🇭🇪🇸🏳️‍🌈😷🍉💜 (@coffeeteanxiety) July 13, 2024

Movie star Watch

Masked Olympians:

William Turner pic.twitter.com/TMJXk9ref2

— Impressions (@impression_ists) July 14, 2024

Violet Affleck earlier than the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors:

Violet Affleck: “To confront the Lengthy COVID disaster I demand masks availability, air filtration and far-UVC mild in authorities services, together with jails and detention facilities and masks mandates in county medical services. We should broaden availability of exams and remedy.… pic.twitter.com/zg4b7Z9vxy

— Dr. Fortunate Tran (@luckytran) July 10, 2024

Her mother and father in fact don’t masks….

Selma Hayek:

Actress Salma Hayek revealed she had a life threatening case of COVID-19 (5/2020) & suffered from #LongCOVID.

“My physician begged me to go to the hospital as a result of it was so dangerous,” Hayek mentioned. “I mentioned, ‘No, thanks. I’d reasonably die at residence.’”#pwLC #LC

🧵🧵🧵 pic.twitter.com/Uc0hWs6pbP

— Lengthy COVID Basis (@LongCFoundation) July 12, 2024

Elite Maleficence

The Latest Should-Have Residence Amenity for the Wealthy: Purified Air [Kanebridge News]. “Luxurious householders are recognized to splurge on glossy kitchens, customized decor and artwork, however they’re more and more turning their consideration to one thing much less seen. Forest-fire smoke, the pandemic and elevated consciousness of sensitivities to mould and different irritants are making their inside setting a precedence. Many are investing in advanced techniques and versatile designs that promise more healthy indoor air however nonetheless embody areas, comparable to glass-enclosed rooms, that make being indoors really feel pure. Listings are more and more touting pollution-fighting facilities to lure residence patrons. In Santa Rosa, Calif., a 13-acre property on the market at $15 million has a whole-home air air purifier. This spring, the Dovecote constructing, below development in Manhattan’s Harlem neighbourhood, will provide six, three-bedroom condos constructed to strict inexperienced and clean-air requirements, beginning at $1.5 million. Malin, founding father of Troon Pacific, a San Francisco-based developer of $15 million to $45 million properties that he calls wholesome houses, mentioned he focuses on the smallest particulars that may have an effect on air high quality. New instruments permit for more-precise measurement of assorted particulate matter and carbon dioxide ranges, he added. ‘Covid modified individuals’s perspective on connecting air high quality to well being, and the [wildfires] solely enhanced that.’” • “Folks’s perspective.” Not all of them, and one can solely marvel why. Commentary:

i come into informal contact w wealthy ppl on account of my job

when i inform you they by no means stopped covid precautions lol. every part they carried out is now everlasting

all their residence air filters bought swapped out, personalised medication, workers sporting masks 24/7, and many others

— 🌸 (@livelaughlmao) July 14, 2024

Can readers verify?

“The summer time surge of COVID within the US and the implications of the anti-public well being coverage” [WSWS]. “The US is within the midst of an accelerating summer time COVID wave, the ninth such wave since March 2020. The present epicenters are situated within the West (one in 37 contaminated) and the South (one in 43) of the nation. Given the entire abandonment of all public well being measures, together with vaccination, this growth is being pushed extra by waning inhabitants immunity coming off the winter peak and fewer by any uncommon ‘seasonality’ patterns to SARS-CoV-2…. No principled public well being determine has ever outlined an endemic state as a perpetual saturation of the inhabitants with a viral pathogen as is the present scenario.” • Nope. Although I don’t know why WSWS doesn’t go forward and say “eugenicist” reasonably than “anti-public well being.”

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Lambert right here: CDC claims (albeit with an exculpatory footnote) to replace its vaunted Nationwide Wastewater Surveillance System knowledge each Friday by 8pm. It has not up to date the information since June 24. If it’s not up to date by Monday, I can solely conclude that the information is de facto, actually ugly. Keep protected on the market!

TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts

LEGEND

1) ★ for charts new right now; all others should not up to date.

2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”

NOTES

[1] (CDC) This week’s wastewater map, with scorching spots annotated. Worse than two weeks in the past. New York is a scorching once more, and Covid is spreading up the Maine Coast simply in time for the Fourth of July weekend, in one other triumph for Administration coverage.

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

[3] (CDC Variants) LB.1 developing on the surface.

[4] (ER) That is one of the best I can do for now. A minimum of knowledge for your entire pandemic is offered.

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Now acceleration, which is suitable with a wastewater lower, however nonetheless not a superb feeling .(The NY city space has type; in 2020, as the house of two worldwide airports (JFK and EWR) it was an vital entry level for the virus into the nation (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, because the wealthy sought to flee, after which across the nation by means of air journey.)

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). That is one of the best I can do for now. Notice the idea that Covid is seasonal is constructed into the presentation, which actually exhibits that Covid shouldn’t be seasonal. A minimum of knowledge for your entire pandemic is offered.

[7] (Walgreens) Nonetheless going up! (As a result of there’s knowledge in “present view” tab, I feel white states right here have skilled “no change,” versus haven’t any knowledge.)

[8] (Cleveland) Nonetheless going up!

[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Up. These sh*theads at CDC have modified the chart in order that it doesn’t even run again to 1/21/23, because it used to, however now begins 1/1/24. There’s additionally no approach to alter the time rasnge. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or examine one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.

[10] (Vacationers: Variants) Similar deal. These sh*theads.

[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.

[12] Deaths low, ED up.

Stats Watch

Manufacturing: “United States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index declined to -6.6 in July 2024, barely under market expectations of -6. New orders remained steady, whereas shipments noticed a slight enhance. Supply instances improved and provide availability stayed the identical. Inventories decreased, reflecting ongoing challenges.”

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As we speak’s Worry & Greed Index: 57 Greed (earlier shut: 51 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 52 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jul 12 at 12:26:44 PM ET.

Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 186. (Keep in mind that bringing on the Rapture is sweet.) • Not what the local weather protection implies.

Permaculture

Restoring a panorama dominated by bracken, a thread:

First, some fundamentals. Bracken is a local fern, that emerges from the bottom yearly in late spring and summer time. Its fronds can type a dense mass + develop to 2m or extra.

It then collapses and dies off within the autumn, its energies subsumed right into a deep underground community of rhizomes. pic.twitter.com/UzhXAvvfB8

— Eoghan Daltun 🌍 (@IrishRainforest) July 12, 2024

I ponder if there’s an equal method for kudzu…

Picture Ebook

“Chill out to Mesmerizing Aerial Views of Iceland’s ‘Glacial Flour’ Pulsing By Waterways” [This is Colossal]. “As glaciers broaden and recede, they’ve the capability to grind rock so fantastic that geologists confer with the pulverized materials as glacial flour. It slips down rivers and into lakes, carrying the otherworldly turquoise hue by means of a novel and resilient ecosystem. In Iceland, the blue-green colour is complemented by rivers that move yellow, due to sulfur from close by volcanoes, or purple from dissolved ferrous iron—also called lavatory iron. Coursing over rock and black sand, the streams tackle dazzling, rhythmic patterns.” • For instance:

Appears to be like just like the floor of Jupiter!

The Gallery

Sailors’ delight?

William Turner pic.twitter.com/TMJXk9ref2

— Impressions (@impression_ists) July 14, 2024

Zeitgeist Watch

“A Deal With the Satan: What the Age-Outdated Faustian Discount Reveals In regards to the Fashionable World” [Literary Hub]. “The legend of the Satan’s contract is essentially the most alluring, essentially the most provocative, essentially the most insightful, a very powerful story ever advised. It issues a humanity strung between Heaven and Hell, the saintly and the satanic; how a person might commerce his soul for powers all-powerful, signing a covenant with the Satan in order that he might briefly reside as a god earlier than being pulled right down to Hell…. [T]he Satan’s hoof-prints will be discovered throughout the large swatch of historical past, in our willingness to embrace energy and interact in exploitation, to summon self-interestedness and to conjure cruelty…. Marlowe staged [Doctor Faustus] on the very starting of what’s more and more being referred to as the Anthropocene, the geological epoch through which humanity was lastly in a position to impose its will (in an nearly occult method) upon the earth. There are prices to any such contract, because the knowledge of the legend has it… It could be acceptable to rechristen this age the Faustocene. As a result of whether or not or not the Satan is actual, his results on this planet are.” • Hmm.

The 420

“Congress By accident Legalized Weed Six Years In the past” [The Atlantic]. “rive by means of durham, north carolina, the place I reside, and also you may get the impression that marijuana is authorized right here. Retail home windows promote thc in glittery letters and neon glass, and seven-pointed leaves adorn storefronts and roadside sandwich boards. The latest enterprise close to my home is the Keep Lit Smoke Store, the place an alien ripping a bong invitations you to make use of the drive-through. Actually, neither medical nor leisure marijuana is authorized in North Carolina. Technically, we’re getting excessive on hemp. That is in all probability not what Congress had in thoughts when it handed the Agricultural Enchancment Act of 2018, generally referred to as the 2018 Farm Invoice, which made the manufacturing of hemp—hashish’s historically nonpsychoactive cousin—authorized for the primary time in almost a century. Lawmakers who backed hemp legalization anticipated the plant for use for textiles and nonintoxicating dietary supplements, comparable to CBD oil and shelled hemp seeds (nice on an acai bowl). They didn’t notice that, with some chemistry and creativity, hemp can get you simply as excessive because the dankest marijuana plant. The upshot is that though leisure marijuana use is allowed in solely 24 states and Washington, D.C., individuals anyplace within the U.S. can get intoxicated on hemp-derived THC with out breaking federal legislation. These hemp-based highs are each bit as potent as these derived from the marijuana out there in legalization states.’ • Lastly some excellent news….

Information of the Wired

“How Virginia Woolf’s list-making paved the best way for her literary experiments” [Financial Times]. “Every day adopted a sample. Woolf famous the climate; any bugs or birds seen on her stroll (“3 excellent peacock butterflies”); her each day tally of mushrooms or blackberries (“A report discover”, “Sufficient for a dish”); gardening or home actions (“Made chair cowl after tea”); what was taking place within the fields (“German prisoners slicing wheat with hooks”); what she had for supper (“Consuming our personal broad beans — scrumptious”); and the worth of rationed items (“Eggs 2/9 doz. from Mrs Attfield”). Adhering to a construction in her diary gave form to her convalescence. Woolf hardly ever used “I” and but we catch sight of her out strolling, or stitching on the terrace in a straw hat. It’s not by likelihood that she wrote the laundry checklist on the within cowl of this pocket book. Throughout this era, listmaking and diary-keeping grew to become a part of the identical follow of taking note of small issues and of setting down her expertise, sparely and with out flourish, on the web page. To biographers, this slender diary has appeared inconsequential in contrast with the weightier stuff of her later longhand diaries and letters.” • Properly price a learn, especiallly in case you write. I really like lists!

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CH writes: “Fritillary on milkweed, Asheville, NC.” A minimum of I feel it’s a fritillary (from my highschool butterfly gathering days). Readers?

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