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Fowl Track of the Day
Grey Catbird, Indian Springs WMA, two-track highway, Washington, Maryland, United States. “Grownup male Grey Catbird singing from Black Locust at 14 meters at 0541. He was simply sitting there singing.”
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In Case You May Miss…
Longshoremen to strike in two weeks (plus Boeing).
Sean “Diddy” Combs jailed in seamy Epstein-like music trade scandal.
Morning Seek the advice of: Kamala leads by 6%.
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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Trump Assassination Makes an attempt (Plural)
“Trump, Outrage and the Fashionable Period of Political Violence” [Peter Baker, New York Times]. The deck: “The newest obvious assassination try in opposition to the previous president signifies how a lot the American political panorama has been formed by anger stirred by him and in opposition to him.” Extra: “However it’s a measure of how a lot political violence has turn into part of trendy American tradition — not accepted, maybe, however increasingly more anticipated — that the most recent incident might make no extra distinction than the primary. The shock from the capturing in Butler wore off comparatively rapidly as consideration turned to different developments. The shock from this one might not final any longer.” • Plenty of “each side” right here. However thus far, the one tried assassinations have been of Trump. So, should you settle for the idea of stochastic terrorism, and also you settle for that “each side do it,” then one facet’s messaging is way more practical than the opposite. Oh, and Baker writes, of unnamed wannabe murderer Routh: “Days later, authorities stated, a person who described himself on-line as a disaffected former Trump supporter made his approach with a semiautomatic rifle to the previous president’s Florida golf course, evidently seeking to take a shot.” As I present right here, Routh not solely talked about assassinating Trump in his e-book, he accepted the Democrat “our democracy” speaking level, he was additionally a Democrat donor, and a passionate supporter of Ukraine (interviewed by many together with the Instances). Baker’s description is disingenuous at greatest.
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2024
Lower than sixty days to go!
Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:
A number of polls post-debate, however as of this studying little change. To be truthful, it’d take a while for sentiment to settle; and the profitable margins might at this level be so minute as to be undetectable. Nonetheless, the Democrats have to be very puzzled to have digital unanimity throughout the political spectrum that “Harris is the one” — it was a tidal wave, after the controversy — and but the election is a digital tie. How can this be? Maybe just a few extra Republicans, generals, or celebrities will flip the tide.
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“Harris soars to file 6-point lead over Trump in post-debate ballot” [Axios]. “Vice President Kamala Harris leapt to a six-point lead over former President Trump within the wake of final week’s presidential debate, based on a Morning Seek the advice of ballot revealed Tuesday. Most polls earlier than final Tuesday’s debate that noticed Harris rattle Trump on a spread of matters had the pair locked in a digital useless warmth. ‘A majority of possible voters — together with 1 in 5 Republicans — imagine Harris received the controversy, and efficiency seems to be crystalizing her nationwide lead over the previous president,’ stated Eli Yokley, political analyst at Morning Seek the advice of, in an emailed assertion. Morning Seek the advice of pollsters surveyed 11,022 possible U.S. voters from Sept. 13-15 within the ballot, which had an unweighted margin of error of +/-1 proportion level. Morning Seek the advice of notes that its survey displaying help for Harris at 51% in comparison with 45% for Trump was a “new file” for the Democratic presidential nominee. ‘Her 51% of help amongst possible voters, which can be at a file excessive, is pushed largely by her greatest figures thus far amongst Democrats, Biden 2020 voters, liberals, ladies, 18- to 34-year-olds and millennials,’ it stated. Morning Seek the advice of’s voter standards consists of any registered voters who say they’re extremely prone to vote within the November election.”
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Kamala (D): “Harris refuses to veer off script in her second high-profile interview” [Politico]. “Harris’ sit-down came about in entrance of a stay viewers, which included NABJ members in addition to native college students of traditionally Black schools and universities. At a number of factors all through the occasion, members of the small crowd quietly took images and movies of her solutions. Partly, Harris’ unwillingness on Tuesday to interrupt from Biden’s method underscores the challenges of operating for workplace because the sitting vice chairman. Whereas she has careworn on the marketing campaign path and in her debate in opposition to Trump that she will not be Biden, disagreeing with him publicly continues to be a fragile matter. Not solely are there private relationships at play, however breaking with the president in public may undermine his negotiating energy on the worldwide stage.” On reparations: “On whether or not she would take government motion to create a fee to review reparations or if that was higher dealt with by Congress, Harris stated the latter.” On abortion: “Harris, who has repeatedly stated that she would signal a invoice to codify Roe v. Wade, was additionally requested whether or not she helps the restrictions that had been outlined within the courtroom resolution. Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court docket overturned in 2022, is greatest recognized for safeguarding abortion rights. However it additionally stipulated limitations, allowing states to manage the process within the pregnant individual’s third trimester. In actual fact, the landmark Supreme Court docket case allowed states to ban abortion within the remaining trimester, so long as the legislation offered exceptions for the lifetime of the mom. Abortion rights advocates don’t help the restrictions in Roe, arguing that the federal government shouldn’t have any function in regulating abortion. However many citizens want some however not limitless abortion entry.”
Kamala (D): “As a result of I’m Black” (id #2, and never Indian (#1) or Lady of Colour (#3, and I had thought the present idenity):
Harris on her message to Black males who’re contemplating voting for Trump: “I am working to earn their vote. Not assuming I’ll have it as a result of I am Black, however as a result of the insurance policies and views I’ve perceive what we should do to acknowledge the wants of all communities” pic.twitter.com/xqhuqHflXZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 17, 2024
It’s tiresome, preserving monitor. I don’t know the way she does it!
Kamala (D): “Progressives hope Harris’ border shift is momentary” [Axios]. • Lol no.
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GA: “AJC ballot finds Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a decent race in Georgia” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]. “The Republican drew 47% help within the ballot whereas Harris was at 44% — inside the ballot’s margin of error of three.1 proportion factors. About 7% of voters stated they had been undecided. Libertarian Chase Oliver and different third-party candidates polled beneath 1%.”
NV: “Financial worries enhance Trump’s Hispanic help in battleground Nevada” [CNN]. • Interviews with small enterprise homeowners.
PA: “Harris leads Trump in Pennsylvania — and two bellwether PA counties — unique ballot finds” [USA Today]. “Together with Harris’ statewide edge over Trump, she leads in Erie and Northampton counties – two bellwether counties which have traditionally predicted who carries the state – separate USA TODAY/Suffolk College polls of each discovered…. Harris leads in Northampton County, which incorporates the cities of Easton and Bethlehem in East Pennsylvania, 50%-45% over Trump. Biden carried Northampton 50%-49% within the 2020 election. Trump carried Northampton 50%-46% over Clinton in 2016. In Northwest Pennsylvania, Harris leads Trump 48%-44% in Erie County, the place Biden in 2020 received 50%-49% and Trump in 2016 received 49%-47%. 300 possible voters had been surveyed in each county polls, which have margins of error of 5.7 proportion factors. Serving to drive Harris’ benefit in Northampton – which boasts a Latino inhabitants that’s 13% of the county’s inhabitants – is the vice chairman’s 60%-25% lead amongst Latino voters within the county. But the frequent denominator in each counties and Pennsylvania as an entire is Harris’ dominance with feminine voters.”
Clinton Legacy
Yikes:
If Hillary’s insanely repressive measure had been applied — individuals spreading disinformation could possibly be imprisoned — the primary two to share a jail cell must be her and Maddow, who drowned the nation within the Steele File, Afla Financial institution servers and different demented debunked lies. https://t.co/DuWN8mmRaH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 17, 2024
Realignment and Legitimacy
“Sachs & Mearsheimer: There Is Principally One Deep State Occasion Of Cheney, Harris, And Biden, Embodied By Victoria Nuland” (transcript) [RealClearPolitics].
JOHN MEARSHIEMER: No, I prefer to confer with the Republicans and Democrats and tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum.
There’s hardly any distinction. I truly assume the one exception is former President Trump. When he turned president in 2017, he was bent on “beating again the deep state,” and turning into a special type of chief on the international coverage entrance. However he mainly failed. And he has vowed that if he’s elected this time, it will likely be totally different and he’ll beat again the deep state. He’ll pursue a international coverage that’s basically totally different than Republicans and Democrats have pursued up till now.
The massive query on the desk is whether or not or not you assume Trump can beat the deep state and these two established events, and I wager in opposition to Trump.
MEARSHEIMER: After we speak in regards to the ‘Deep State,’ we’re actually speaking in regards to the Administrative State. It is vitally vital to grasp that beginning within the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, given developments within the American financial system, it was crucial that we develop — and that is true of all Western international locations — a really highly effective central state that would ‘run the nation.’ And over time, that state has grown in energy.
Since World Warfare Two, the USA has been concerned in each nook and cranny of the world, preventing wars right here, there, and in all places. And to try this, you want a really highly effective administrative state that may assist handle that international coverage. However within the course of, what occurs is you get all of those high-level, middle-level, and low-level bureaucrats who turn into established in positions within the Pentagon, the State Division, and the intelligence group — you title it. They usually find yourself having a vested curiosity in pursuing a selected international coverage.
That individual international coverage that they prefer to pursue is the one the Democrats and the Republicans are pushing. That’s why we discuss tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum with regard to the 2 events. You might throw within the deep state as being on the identical web page as these different two establishments.
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
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Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the handle 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 studies); 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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Airborne Transmission: Covid
“Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The Distinction between Indoors and Open air” [Fluids]. We linked to this right here and right here when it got here out in March, however with the transfer indoors to highschool, it’s value posting once more. From the Dialogue: “Within the evaluation above, we’ve explored the primary variations that exist between indoor and out of doors environments with respect to the transmission of COVID-19. From this, a constant image emerges, which, though complicated, helps to elucidate why the illness primarily spreads indoors. Whereas a lot stays unknown in regards to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, our evaluation clearly reveals that profound variations exist within the fluid dynamic behaviour of the 2 environments, which possible explains why the overwhelming majority of COVID-19 infections happen inside buildings and different confined areas moderately than open air…. Two points particularly, the interplay between thermal plumes and ceilings and the entrainment of room air into exhalation plumes, seem to have been largely missed within the literature. Each usually are not an issue open air. But indoors, they current a significant problem as a result of rooms are by definition confined and customarily have ceilings. Which means indoors: (i) boluses of respiratory aerosols (high-concentration clouds) will are likely to kind on the ceiling and journey horizontally earlier than descending by means of the respiratory zone of the room occupants; and (ii) because the focus of respiratory aerosols builds up within the room area, so the near-field publicity threat related to exhalation plumes will have a tendency to extend. Each these phenomena imply that the chance of transmission is way larger indoors in contrast with open air. Additionally they spotlight the inadequacy of the simplistic ‘near-field’–‘far-field’ evaluation framework. In actuality, in most indoor environments, the near-field and far-field publicity dangers are inextricably linked—one thing that’s not the case open air. As a result of exhalation plumes entrain air from the encircling room area, a suggestions loop exists between the far-field and near-field.”
“Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a college classroom based mostly on actual human shut contact behaviors” [Science of The Total Environment]. From China. From the Summary: “The chance of an infection of vulnerable college students per 45-min lesson was 1%… When all college students are carrying N95 respirators, the an infection threat could possibly be lowered by 96%… In a classroom with an occupancy charge of fifty %, after optimized association of pupil distribution, the an infection threat could possibly be decreased by 62 %.” • I believe the optimized prepare is entrance to again, i.e. “Let’s all sit in a circle!” is a nasty thought.
Maskstravaganza
“Sure, we do must deliver again masks in medical settings” [Toronto Star]. “Lots of my most susceptible sufferers are keenly conscious of the potential well being dangers this presents. But most say nothing and would by no means dream of asking their clinician to put on a masks. There are sound causes for this.
The primary has to do with lengthy wait occasions. A go to to the specialist is a treasured commodity that can not be risked. A number of months go earlier than sufferers are seen, elevating the urgency for care. That is solely the primary of many elements to return that may silence even probably the most assertive of sufferers.
Many don’t need to seem disrespectful by asking their health-care employees to masks. They concern being labelled ‘troublesome’ or ‘demanding’ and turn into distressed on the prospect of questioning their clinician’s judgment, even when it ought to put them in hurt’s approach. Sufferers turn into extra passive when burdened with the anxiousness, dread and fatigue that accompanies sickness. Deep-seated fears are ignited that additional enhance the dependency on health-care employees and squelch any remaining probability of their requesting that their clinicians masks.” • You do you, besides not.
Masking and virus dimension:
Al Haddrell has reached a big conclusion relating to the dimensions of the virus. The virus particles are predominantly discovered inside the vary of 1 to five microns. Consequently, there isn’t any must pursue filters of the very best grade for masks or air purifiers when the objective is to… https://t.co/v1npp8KZVW pic.twitter.com/p7KYykcU74
— Adam Wong (@Engineer_Wong) September 18, 2024
I’m a bit of confused about whether or not by “virus” is supposed the aerosol particle that bears the virus. However an fascinating line of inquiry!
Sequelae: Covid
“New report warns lengthy COVID could possibly be ‘mass disabling occasion’” [Insurance Business]. “Canada’s chief science adviser has launched a report on lengthy COVID, warning that it may have vital long-term impacts on the nation’s financial system. Within the report, Dr. Mona Nemer referred to as COVID-19 the ‘head’ of the pandemic and lengthy COVID its ‘tail,’ citing the debilitating results of the illness that may linger lengthy after the preliminary an infection. She estimated that 10-20% of individuals with COVID-19 develop lengthy COVID or post-COVID situation (PCC), with signs together with hypertension, an irregular heartbeat, continual fatigue, mind fog, muscle ache, and blurred imaginative and prescient. ‘Some sufferers haven’t recovered two to 3 years after the preliminary an infection and it’s unsure whether or not a proportion might ever totally recuperate,’ Nemer stated within the report, including that the dearth of consensus on a transparent definition and diagnostic standards could make it troublesome to lodge claims for social help, incapacity helps, and insurance coverage. There could possibly be wider socio-economic implications too, as evaluation of lengthy COVID in different international locations, together with the UK and the USA, indicated “vital impacts on the labour market and the Gross Home Product (GDP), along with well being prices and calls for.’”
Private Threat Evaluation
“Individuals can’t make “threat assessments” with out realizing the dangers” [The Gauntlet]. “US politicians pushed us all ‘again to regular’, a typical chorus from the highest was that we ‘had the instruments’ to cope with COVID, and that people may now make their very own selections about what kinds of dangers they had been comfy taking. I’ve written at size in regards to the absurdity of making an attempt to individualize what’s a collective drawback. What was as soon as a libertarian, far-right wing thought – illness management must be the territory of people, not society at large- was first promoted by Republicans, then mainstreamed by liberals to be able to paint Biden’s failed vaccine-only herd-immunity technique as a hit. As we settled right into a cycle of limitless waves of illness pushed by quickly evolving new variants, our authorities and public well being our bodies continued to advertise the fantasy that everybody could make their very own selections about whether or not or to not get contaminated. In fact, anybody who does make the ‘threat evaluation’ that catching COVID is unsafe for them is functionally shut out of society. It’s hardly a alternative freely made, because the social and financial punishments for failing to ‘return to regular’ proceed to accentuate.” In the meantime: “The present CDC Director, Mandy Cohen, has by no means tweeted the phrases “cognitive harm,” “mind harm” or “mind fog.” Neither has former CDC Director Rachelle Walensky.”
Elite Maleficence
UK Covid inquiry going properly for the droplet dogmatists:
The actually ironic factor is that, throughout ‘The Lengthy Pause’, the one sound you may hear is the faint hum of the HEPA air filters cleansing the air within the room…
…whereas Dr Ritchie contemplates whether or not air flow is barely a helpful precaution if Covid is airborne.
(H/t @Hermione1963) https://t.co/pJm5QRWiZ6
— Cat within the Hat 🐈⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 (@_CatintheHat) September 18, 2024
IPC = An infection Prevention and Management. And what an awesome job they did. I’m wondering if we are going to ever have an analogous fee in the USA?
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“Half 1: We Don’t Must Marvel if the Nice Barrington Declaration May Have “Labored”. Within the Actual World, It Failed” [Science-Based Medicine]. “he Nice Barrington Declaration (GBD) was revealed on October 4th, 2020. It was written beneath the watchful eye of a pro-tobacco, child-labor advocate, and it claimed we may rid ourselves of the virus by spreading the virus. The GBD claimed we may finish the pandemic by April 2021 on the newest, however provided that everybody labored in excellent unison…. Within the GBD’s imaginative and prescient, all the nation would learn of their Declaration, and after this, everybody would unite to abruptly and radically shift their total method to the pandemic. Residents would voluntarily and appropriately kind themselves ‘susceptible’ or ‘not susceptible’ classes, and everybody would play their assigned function. 230 million or so unvaccinated, ‘not susceptible’ Individuals, most of whom had been diligently making an attempt to keep away from the virus so far, would immediately reverse course and embrace ‘pure an infection’. That a few of them would get actually sick and die wouldn’t be a motive for anybody to desert the mission.” • We don’t want to fret about our Journey right into a LIbertarian Future anymore. We’re right here!
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TABLE 1: Day by day Covid Charts
Lambert right here: First time in a very long time I’ve seen nationwide traits downward for each positivity and hospitalization. Even when wastewater nonetheless seems to be fairly ugly, that’s superb information. I assume that what’s happening is the top of the Summer season Trip cycle of an infection, and there will probably be a brief lull till the start of the Again to College cycle. If not, that will probably be an excellent signal.
Wastewater
This week[1] CDC September 9
Final Week[2] CDC (till subsequent week):
Variants [3] CDC September 14
Emergency Room Visits[4] CDC September 7
Hospitalization
★ New York[5] New York State, information September 16:
Nationwide [6] CDC August 24:
Positivity
Nationwide[7] Walgreens September 16:
Ohio[8] Cleveland Clinic September 7:
Vacationers Information
Positivity[9] CDC August 26:
Variants[10] CDC August 26:
Deaths
Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11]CDC September 7:
Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12]CDC September 9:
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new immediately; all others usually are 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. Retains spreading. NOTE The date appears to be fallacious, however the variety of websites has modified so that is new.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* very fashionable. XDV.1 flat.
[4] (ED) Down, however value noting that Emergency Division use is now on a par with the primary wave, in 2020.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Undoubtedly down. NOTE Statewide, there may be an uptick. Not in New York Metropolis, Lengthy Island, or Mid-Hudson.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). The visualization suppresses what’s, in proportion phrases, a big enhance.
[7] (Walgreens) Large drop continues!
[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Down. 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 regulate the time vary. 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) What the heck is LB.1?
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED up.
Stats Watch
Housing: “Housing Begins” [Trading Economics]. “Housing begins in the USA soared by 9.6% from the earlier month to an annualized charge of 1.356 million models in August of 2024, firmly above market expectations of 1.31 million models, rebounding from the close to 7% plunge within the earlier interval to file the sharpest enhance in 9 months.”
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Provide Chain: “With Two Weeks Left and No Talks, Trade Prepares for ILA Strike” [Maritime Executive]. “At this time marks two weeks until the possible first day of a crippling strike for containers and Ro-Ro visitors at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports because the Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation has refused to renew negotiations on the grasp contract. With no indicators of presidency intervention regardless of urging from shippers, the trade is searching for options whereas analysts try to forecast the impression…. [The ILA] issued a brand new assertion focusing fully on wages and rehashing outdated wage will increase, or the dearth thereof, courting again to the Nineties. Citing inflation and years of low will increase, the ILA says ‘spotty yearly will increase’ are historical past. The ILA stated it is going to reject the USMX (United States Maritime Alliance) place on new entry wage, and calls for giant will increase. The union writes that it has been making ready for over a 12 months and the time is now to take a ‘stand and battle a better stage of wages.’ With out indicating any willingness to renew the negotiations which have been at an deadlock since June, the ILA says a strike ‘appears extra possible.’”
Provide Chain: “Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation and pay” [ABC]. “The Worldwide Longshoremen’s Union is demanding considerably increased wages and a complete ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container actions which are used within the loading or loading of freight at 36 U.S. ports. Each time and nonetheless the dispute is resolved, it’s prone to have an effect on how freight strikes out and in of the USA for years to return. If a strike had been resolved inside just a few weeks, customers in all probability wouldn’t discover any main shortages of retail items. However a strike that persists for greater than a month would possible trigger a scarcity of some shopper merchandise, though most vacation retail items have already arrived from abroad.”
Provide Chain: “Biden received’t block potential strike at East Coast ports, administration official says” [Reuters]. “U.S. President Joe Biden doesn’t intend to invoke a federal legislation to stop a port strike on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico if dockworkers fail to safe a brand new labor contract by an Oct. 1 deadline, an administration official stated on Tuesday…. ‘We’ve by no means invoked Taft-Hartley to interrupt a strike and usually are not contemplating doing so now,’ the Biden administration official instructed Reuters.”
Provide Chain: “US beef market debates impact of potential Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation strike” [S&P Global]. “‘Letting the ILA [strike] play out could be a catastrophe politically,’ stated a US beef purchaser. A transportation specialist stated, ‘[there is] no approach that the union goes to place the Democrats in such a nasty place that will enable them to lose the election.’ In response to trade sources, it seems that marine terminal operators and ocean carriers, particularly the Mediterranean Delivery Firm, are ready for the strike to start. The Mediterranean Delivery Firm is seen as a bellwether within the international delivery market, sources stated. Following the strike, a movement will probably be introduced by the group to pressure the ILA to return to work for 45 days. If no decision is reached inside that interval, one other movement will probably be filed to increase the working interval. On this state of affairs, an arbitrator will probably be appointed by the courtroom inside the time-frame to assist develop a resolved contract. Though beef and different meats usually are not the biggest quantity cargo obtained in East Coast ports, it’s prone to be probably the most affected, as refrigerated containers and the generator units that energy them are in brief provide, based on trade specialists. Firms with freight in reefers will need freight eliminated upfront of the strike and suddenly, additional limiting the availability, stated the transportation specialist. Most US beef patrons haven’t modified their shopping for habits or delivery plans. Thus far, beef costs haven’t modified in response to the potential of strike.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing pronounces broad rolling furloughs keyed to Machinists strike” [Seattle Times]. “Boeing on Wednesday stated it is going to institute furloughs for a lot of U.S.-based employees all through the Machinists strike that started final week. Workers will take one week of furlough each 4 weeks on a rolling foundation so long as the strike lasts, President and CEO Kelly Ortberg wrote in a message despatched to all Boeing employees. Ortberg stated he and his management workforce will take a ‘commensurate pay discount’ all through the strike. He didn’t specify the pay reduce quantity. Boeing and the Machinists are assembly Wednesday to proceed negotiations after restarting talks Tuesday. The Machinists referred to as Tuesday a irritating day and stated the 2 sides weren’t shut in reaching a deal.” • “Commensurate”? Like zero?
Tech: “23andMe sees impartial board administrators stop en masse” [TechCrunch]. “23andMe, the non-public genomics firm, went public in early 2021 through a merger with a clean examine firm that valued it at $3.5 billion. Then its fortunes started to sink. Fading curiosity in DNA kits – 23andMe’s major product – was one driver. So was information final 12 months that hackers stole ancestry information on 6.9 million of its customers. CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki now reportedly desires to take the 18-year-old firm non-public. After her personal proposal to purchase it was rebuffed by its board in July, she was given time to wangle one other deal. However its impartial administrators introduced Tuesday night they’ve misplaced religion that one other proposal is coming, including that due to Wojcicki’s ‘concentrated voting energy,’ they’re executed, efficient instantly. The corporate’s market cap closed the day at $173 million. Shedding its glittering board – which included Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, amongst 5 others – will possible drive its shares down additional. One query is whether or not a shareholder lawsuit would possibly comply with.” • That’s a damned disgrace. Wojcicki was as soon as married to Sergey Brin.
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At this time’s Concern & Greed Index: 57 Greed (earlier shut: 54 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 39 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 18 at 1:46:09 PM ET.
Gallery
Liberty main the individuals:
Liberty Inviting Artists to Take Half within the twenty second Exhibition of the Society of Unbiased Artists https://t.co/oXnuJgL0LC pic.twitter.com/BcijLT9AoX
— Henri Rousseau (@artrousseau) September 18, 2024
(Sorry about Twitter’s cropping; click on the picture to see the entire thing.)
Well being
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger, besides not:
You have heard of the 9 circles of Hell? A affected person with most cancers documented the TWENTY-SIX steps essential to get their medicine (as an oncologist I do know a vicious cycle after I see one) pic.twitter.com/K6tz88QT2K
— Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO (@marklewismd) September 16, 2024
Class Warfare
“Resurgent Unions Flex Muscle at Boeing, Stellantis and East Coast Ports” [Reuters]. “Throughout the USA, labor unions are placing, threatening strikes and asserting their clout in ways in which haven’t been seen in many years. Main ports on the East Coast, Boeing, and automaker Stellantis are all engaged in present or potential labor actions.” • And hopefully negotiating all their contracts to finish on Could 1, 2028.
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“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jailed by choose after intercourse trafficking indictment” [Associated Press]. ” Sean “Diddy” Combs headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal intercourse trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes protected by blackmail and surprising acts of violence. The music mogul is charged with racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking. The indictment in opposition to him lists allegations that return to 2008. He’s accused of inducing feminine victims and male intercourse employees into drugged-up, generally dayslong sexual performances dubbed ‘Freak Offs.’… The Dangerous Boy Information founder is accused of sexually abusing and utilizing bodily pressure towards ladies and getting his private assistants, safety and family workers to assist him disguise all of it. Prosecutors say he additionally tried to bribe and intimidate witnesses and victims to maintain them quiet.” • Combs pleaded harmless.
“Diddy trolled by 50 Cent AGAIN over viral ‘1000 child oil bottles’ claims in rapper’s shock indictment after arrest” [Daily Mail]. • As so usually with the Day by day Mail, the headline says all of it.
“Diddy’s arrest for intercourse trafficking sends shockwaves by means of music trade with ‘at the least 5 execs’ at file labels apprehensive” [Daily Mail] • As above. As a result of (from March)–
“Diddy’s Houses Reportedly Fitted With Hidden Cameras In Each Room” [Blast]. Perhaps all of the super-rich do that. Why not? Extra: “The rapper has been accused of becoming his residence with a number of hidden cameras after which utilizing the footage to allegedly blackmail get together attendees… In response to courtroom paperwork filed by Diddy’s former worker, Rodney’ Lil Rod’ Jones, the rapper purportedly put in a number of hidden cameras in his properties situated in Los Angeles and on Star Island. These cameras supposedly captured alleged disturbing footage of his company together with “celebrities, athletes, politicians, worldwide dignitaries, and music label executives.” • Hoo boy. I’m wondering if Mossad has these tapes too. Kidding!
“United States of America vs. SEAN COMBS a/ok/a “Puff Daddy,” a/ok/a “P. Diddy”, a/ok/a “PD, a/ok/a “Love” (PDF) [United States District Court, Southern District of New York]. The indictment. And from August–
👉🏿 “The Domination Tour” [Maureen Tkacik, Prospect]. The deck: “4 many years of intensifying company focus turned the music trade right into a wasteland of institutionalized management and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers able to reckon with that?” A lot element on the Britney Spears conservatorship, “among the tawdriest episodes of institutionalized abuse to the uppermost echelons of company America.” Tkacik feedback:
on the event of Diddy’s long-awaited racketeering & intercourse sadism arrest, maybe you discovered your self considering how all of the pop icons of the Clinton/Bush cultural panorama appear to be the merchandise and/or arbiters of sprawling little one intercourse abuse networks… https://t.co/0gJi7QXSUg
— moe tkacik (@moetkacik) September 17, 2024
I didn’t have time to combination images of all Diddy’s “buddies.” He had so much! Amongst them:
This isn’t a superb search for Kamala Harris.
She appears to be near Diddy, as are the Clintons and Obamas. @KamalaHQ
Was Kamala at any “Freak-off” events? 👀 pic.twitter.com/9GjkIGh3Tc
— Dr Vincent Sativa 🇺🇸 (@The_Weed_Shop) September 18, 2024
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A “Nice Ball Contraption” (apparently a style large in Japan):
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CF writes: From the Conservatory Backyard in Central Park, NYC. just like the Abutilon leaves, which appear like maps!”
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