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By Lambert Strether of Corrente<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nBird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eastern Meadowlark, Illinois Prairie Path\u2013DuPage Airport, DuPage, Illinois, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"#debates\"> The Debates<\/a>, pre-game analysis.<\/p>\n<p>(2) <a href=\"#clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> has a book forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>(3) <a href=\"#counting\">Counting and scripting\/a> in the caring professions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Less than a half a year to go!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/countdown\/i8ubjj5e\/n179\/cf100\/cm0\/cu1\/ct0\/cs1\/ca0\/cr0\/ss0\/cac000\/cpc000\/pcfff\/tcfff\/fs100\/szw320\/szh135\/tatTime%20left%20to%20Election%20Day%2C%202024\/tac000\/tptTime%20since%20Event%20started%20in\/tpc000\/mac000\/mpc000\/iso2024-11-05T00:00:00\/bo2\/pd2\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"322\" height=\"137\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a name=\"swing\"\/>Friday\u2019s RCP Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"1001\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21.png 571w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At this point, we should entertain the hypothesis that the Bragg verdict is a damp squib, unless Biden can somehow leverage it in the debate. Swing States (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/03\/introduction-to-swing-states-in-the-presidential-election-of-2024-general-survey.html\">more here<\/a>) still Brownian-motioning around. Of course, it goes without saying that these are all state polls, therefore bad, and most of the results are within the margin of error. If will be interesting to see whether the verdict in Judge Merchan\u2019s court affects the polling, and if so, how. NOTE Sorry for the excess red dots; I can\u2019t seem to make them go away!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cCampaign walks back Trump\u2019s green card promise\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/campaign-walks-back-trumps-green-card-promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cFormer President Trump\u2019s campaign walked back a promise that the former president would \u2018automatically\u2019 award green cards to migrants after they graduate from college. \u2018President Trump has made it clear that on day one of his new administration, he\u2019s going to shut down the border and launch the largest mass deportation effort of illegal aliens in history,\u2019 Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last week, according to a New York Post report, noting that the former president would include an \u2018aggressive vetting process\u2019 and \u2018exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.\u2019 The comments come after Trump\u2019s appearance on the \u201cAll-in Podcast\u201d last week, where the former president outlined an idea to give all foreign college graduates a green card with their diploma.\u201d \u2022 Let Trump be Trump!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Biden (D): \u201cGreenwashing Kamala Harris: How the Veep Casts Herself as an Environmental Justice Crusader\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/06\/25\/greenwashing_kamala_harris_how_the_veep_misleadlingly_casts_herself_as_an_environmental_justice_crusader_1039776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>]. \u201cVice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts to fight for social and environmental justice. \u2018When I was elected DA of San Francisco,\u2019 Harris told a gathering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last year, \u2018I started the first environmental justice unit of any DA\u2019s office in the country.\u2019 In her telling, the San Francisco District Attorney formed the special environmental justice unit in the early 2000s especially to protect the long-neglected community of Bayview Hunters Point, a predominantly African American and impoverished part of the city, which had become \u2018a dumping ground for people from other places.\u2019 \u2026 But records from the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s office and interviews with local environmental advocates point to a different, far less ambitious record. \u2018We\u2019re unaware of any major or semi-major environmental justice work done by Harris in Bayview Hunters Point, including on the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site,\u2019 said Bradley Angel, executive director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, a progressive watchdog group that seeks to \u2018to promote environmental, social, economic and climate justice.\u2019 Steve Castleman, an attorney with UC Berkeley\u2019s Environmental Law Clinic, who has worked on urban pollution issues in the Bay Area, also noted that he did not know of any significant Harris environmental justice action as DA. Far from targeting powerful corporate interests, Harris\u2019 environmental justice unit appears to have filed only a few lawsuits, all against small-time defendants. The targets included a young man who conducted illegal smog checks at a small auto body shop in the city and a left-leaning community newspaper accused of illegally dumping leftover ink in an abandoned lot. Another defendant charged by the unit was a small construction company accused of using adulterated concrete. The major industrial polluters of San Francisco were left untouched under Harris\u2019 watch during her two terms that ended in 2010.\u201d \u2022 Oh.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy (I): On Assange:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Julian Assange struck a plea deal and will go free! I am overjoyed. He’s a generational hero.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1805389415663255819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"debates\"\/>The Debates: \u201cThe Little Secret I\u2019ve Learned From 30 Years of Watching Debates With Voters\u201d [Frank Luntz, <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2024\/06\/24\/the-little-secret-ive-learned-from-30-years-of-watching-debates-with-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201cNothing draws the ire of the average voter more than candidates speaking beyond their allotted time, my focus groups have shown. While most professional debate observers ignore candidates who run long, voters punish them mercilessly. It was a major reason many undecided voters turned so strongly against Mr. Trump after his undisciplined performance in the first debate in 2020. That debate, the most consequential one in memory, was one in which many voters and political experts drew roughly the same conclusions. Mr. Trump entered the debate trailing Mr. Biden by just a couple of percentage points, but his questionable strategy to insult, badger and bully Mr. Biden was received so badly by the women in my focus group that they were as harsh about Mr. Trump as he was to Mr. Biden. In contrast, there was one moment in the Trump-Clinton debates when voter opinion really struck me. It was Mr. Trump\u2019s offhand comment that Mrs. Clinton belonged in jail. Many pundits and political experts hated it. My focus group loved it. For them, it was accountability in action for someone as important as her, a former secretary of state. To be sure, many political experts zeroed in on the moment as a striking instance of a presidential nominee threatening to weaponize the justice system against his opponent. But I think what they missed was a yearning among some voters to see a senior official held to account and not let off the hook by a system seen as protecting insiders.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m sure that Trump\u2019s campaign team was <em>happy<\/em> with the microphone muting, for the reason Luntz gives.<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cDebates Are Lost, Not Won\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/06\/25\/debates_are_lost_not_won_151156.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cTrump\u2019s risk is less what he says and more how he acts. Will he seem unhinged, overbearing, or out of control? Biden\u2019s risk is also less what he says, and more how he looks saying it. Will he seem frail, disoriented, or too old?\u201d \u2022 One again, the muted microphones are a plus for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cYou Don\u2019t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way\u201d [Harold Mayerson, <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/politics\/2024-06-24-you-dont-need-shrink-biden-trump-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The American Prospect<\/a>]. \u201cSo Biden and his campaign have no need to lower expectations going into the debate, though that\u2019s common practice for presidential candidates. Trump and his ilk have already done that for him, day in and day out for the past couple of years. If Biden actually can stand up [let\u2019s not talk about his gait, eh?] and remember things, he will have undercut the one perception most damaging to his prospects: that he\u2019s too old to be president\u2014at least, when compared to Trump. For which reason, ironically, Biden goes into the debate having to surmount the same hurdle as novice candidates (a category in which Biden certainly does not belong): demonstrating that he\u2019s simply up to the job.\u201d \u2022 Strikes me as a debater\u2019s point (though yes, I think diagnosis from digital evidence is both over-the-top and not needed).<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cFirst debate a chance for Biden to finish the Trump smackdown he started during State of the Union\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/06\/25\/first-debate-a-chance-for-biden-to-finish-the-smackdown-he-started-during-state-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salon<\/a>]. A collection of \u201czingers.\u201d More: \u201c\u2018A convicted criminal who\u2019s only out for himself.\u2019 President Biden\u2019s campaign last week launched a $50 million TV <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6989397\/joe-biden-ad-donald-trump-criminal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ad<\/a> buy whose key line shows how to capture two central truths about Trump. The first \u2014 that the former president is a \u2018convicted criminal\u2019 \u2014 speaks for itself and is hard for Trump to escape. The second part of the ad \u2013 \u2018he\u2019s in it only for himself\u2019 is equally important. Biden can quote Bill Barr, Trump\u2019s own attorney general, who said about Trump, \u2018He will always put his own interests . . . ahead of everything else.’\u201d \u2022 Quoting people who have worked for Trump (there are other examples in the article) is an interesting tactic and might get The Donald riled up.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Joe Biden\u2019s bizarre behavior a GOP \u2018cheap fake\u2019? It\u2019s up to him to prove that he\u2019s OK.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2024\/06\/24\/debate-trump-biden-video-decline-election\/74155176007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cCheap fake essentially means a real video is edited in a way to become misleading. I\u2019ve seen various versions of all the videos, however, and regardless of how they were edited or framed, Biden does not come out looking good. I encourage you to watch them for yourselves. Calling them cheap fakes is bad enough, but Jean-Pierre went further and outright lied about these clips being \u2018deepfakes,\u2019 which implies false content created through artificial intelligence or other technology.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/nation-world\/white-house-claims-recent-viral-videos-of-biden-are-actually-deepfakes-president-joe-biden-karine-jean-pierre-normandy-france-apulia-italy-g7-summit-2024-election-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The full Jean-Pierre quote<\/a>: \u201cInstead of talking about the president\u2019s performance in office \u2014 and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he\u2019s been able to do for people across this country \u2014 we\u2019re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos.\u201d \u2022 From this wording, it\u2019s also possible that Jean-Pierre is simply ignorant, and thinks that \u201cdeepfake\u201d and \u201cmanipulated video\u201d are synonyms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clinton Legacy<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"clinton\"\/>\u201cHillary Clinton to warn voters in book coming 7 weeks before election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/25\/hillary-clinton-book-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>] \u201cJust seven weeks before the election, Hillary Rodham Clinton will release a book called \u201c<em>Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty<\/em>,\u201d which is billed as \u2018Hillary like you haven\u2019t seen her before.’\u201d I hope not. More: \u201cThe book includes \u2018new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin.’\u201d \u2022 Geopolitics is always <em>personal<\/em> with these people; I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a grift, I think it\u2019s how they genuinely think, if either of those two words is the word I want. Everything is like high school. And speaking of making it personal, I wonder if Mother\u2019s book will include this:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never forget\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When Julian Assange was releasing US Government war crimes back in 2010, Hillary Clinton proposed drone striking him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oObqv6iT91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/oObqv6iT91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1805430176412573745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Republican Funhouse<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They just can\u2019t help themselves:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House GOP is trying to cut the Antitrust Division by 20% and gut the legislation that passed in 2022 to increase funding when there\u2019s more mergers. Populism!<\/p>\n<p>(And to be clear this is the budget for next year, so it could be Trump\u2019s antitrust division\u2026) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RJah1myYNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/RJah1myYNw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/1805601609516274160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats <em>en D\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; 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MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&subtopic=recurring-updates&indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/udwq.shinyapps.io\/sarscov2_surv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/see-the-numbers\/covid-19-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Censorship and Propaganda<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA resource for COVID-19 research and information [<a href=\"https:\/\/youhavetoliveyour.life\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cYou Have To Live Your Life\u201d<\/a>] \u2022 Maps minimizing, eugenicist clich\u00e9 to counter-evidence using dropdowns:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There should really be a word for \u201cminimizing, eugenicist clich\u00e9.\u201d Perhaps in German?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prevention<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd Now Xylitol\u201d [Derek Lowe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/and-now-xylitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science<\/a>]. \u201cThe authors studies two large and separate cohorts of patients across several years, and fasting xylitol concentration in the blood certainly seems to be correlated with major adverse coronary events, along with stroke\u2026 The evidence looks pretty solid, although the mechanism (as with erythritol) is still something of a mystery. \u2026 At any rate, I would regard these studies as reason enough to avoid both of these compounds as sweeteners, and I would extend the caution to the other sugar alcohols as well (maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, etc.) We really need to understand more about these things, and ditching the sugar-free gummy candies and the like seems like a prudent move.\u201d \u2022 So I guess Xylitol chewing gum as a Covid preventative is out? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"covid\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) This week\u2019s wastewater map, with hot spots annotated. The numbers in the right hand column are identical. The dots on the map are not.<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.3 dominating.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ER) This is the best I can do for now. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Now a jump, which <em>is<\/em> be compatible with a wastewater decrease, but still not a good feeling .(The New York city area has form; in 2020, as the home of two international airports (JFK and EWR) it was an important entry point for the virus into the country (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, as the rich sought to escape, and then around the country through air travel.)<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). This is the best I can do for now. Note the assumption that Covid is seasonal is built into the presentation. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; big jump. (Because there is data in \u201ccurrent view\u201d tab, I think white states here have experienced \u201cno change,\u201d as opposed to have no data.)<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Still going up!<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Up. Those sh*theads at CDC have changed the chart so that it doesn\u2019t even run back to 1\/21\/23, as it used to, but now starts 1\/1\/24. There\u2019s also no way to adjust the time rasnge. CDC really doesn\u2019t want you to be able to take a historical view of the pandemic, or compare one surge to another. In an any case, that\u2019s why the shape of the curve has changed.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants) Same deal. Those sh*theads. I\u2019m leaving this here for another week because I loathe them so much:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"544\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week.png 601w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, but positivity up.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Economy\u201d: \u201cUnited States Chicago Fed National Activity Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/chicago-fed-national-activity-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe Chicago Fed National Activity Index increased to +0.18 in May 2024, the highest in three months, up from a revised -0.26 in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/richmond-fed-manufacturing-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe composite manufacturing index in the US Fifth District slumped to -10 in June of 2024 from the neutral reading of 0 in the earlier period, a sharp contrast to market expectations of a 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 39 Fear (previous close: 39 Fear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 44 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jun 25 at 1:47:21 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"counting\"\/>\u201cThe Triumph of Counting and Scripting\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/life\/2024\/06\/doctors-teachers-dissatisfaction-tracking-charting-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salon<\/a>]. \u201cErin Nash was a hospital chaplain whose job was to be with people in some of their worst moments, praying, holding hands, even singing with them. Shadowing her on her rounds, I watched as she managed to create brief peaceful moments with suffering patients and their families again and again, making temporary sanctuary between the thin blue medical curtains despite the buzzing alarms, fluorescent lighting, and constant stream of footsteps on the linoleum floors nearby. I was surprised to learn that in addition to consoling the bereaved and calming the anxious, Erin (the names in this piece have been changed) had to fill out three separate charts\u2014including the standard electronic health records system that many clinicians use\u2014for every person she visited. She even carried around a cheat sheet to help her remember the codes, murmuring, under her breath, \u2018Asking for a prayer is a resource, family together is a resource,\u201d while she hunted and pecked at the keyboard. Nobody was being billed for Erin\u2019s work, so why was she charting in triplicate? To find the answer, I spent five years talking to workers like Erin, as well as the managers and engineers who are trying to design and impose the systems that control her work. Ultimately, the spread of data analytics into feeling labor is more than just the latest frontier in an inexorable drive toward increasing efficiency everywhere. It has implications for A.I., the future of work, and the stratification of human contact.\u201d \u2022 Reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/break-up-made-easier-with-colorful-visual-aids-1819565783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this from The Onion<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst we shape our social graph; then it shapes us\u201d [Henrik Karlsson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrikkarlsson.xyz\/p\/first-we-shape-our-social-graph-then\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Escaping Flatland<\/a>]. \u201cI\u2019ve been using the word culture so far, but that is not the exact word for what I am gesturing at. It is not the wider culture we internalize; it is the particular set of influences that surround us, what Tim Urban has called \u2018our unique cultural intersection\u2019. Is there a word for this? I don\u2019t know. But discussing the terminology with GPT-3, a large language model, it suggests I use the word milieu, which sounds sophisticated in a distinctly French way. This I can live with. A milieu, says GPT-3, is the culture contained in your unique set of connections. (Merriam Webster\u2019s dictionary says \u2018the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops.\u2019) Unlike the word culture, as anthropologists invoke it when they talk about \u2018French culture\u2019 or \u2018Balinese culture,\u2019 a milieu is not a monolithic thing. Your milieu is not the same as your sister\u2019s. It is an ever-shifting, individual configuration of information flows. The Twitter feed you have curated is a milieu. Your friend group (which is not the same as the friend groups of the other people in that group!) is a milieu. It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself. Curating our milieu is something we all do these days, if not always consciously.\u201d \u2022 <\/p>\n<p><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not feeling wired today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/06\/200pm-water-cooler-6-24-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Th writes: \u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky in that the prior owners of our property never used chemicals. Neither do we and as a result, the amphibians love to hang out in our yard. The perennial geranium just started to bloom and will come on strong this week after the rain.\u201d \u201cSkink\u201d is, IIRC, the name of a dealer in <em>Spook Country<\/em>. 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Bird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eastern Meadowlark, Illinois Prairie Path\u2013DuPage Airport, DuPage, Illinois, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"#debates\"> The Debates<\/a>, pre-game analysis.<\/p>\n<p>(2) <a href=\"#clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> has a book forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>(3) <a href=\"#counting\">Counting and scripting\/a> in the caring professions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Less than a half a year to go!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/countdown\/i8ubjj5e\/n179\/cf100\/cm0\/cu1\/ct0\/cs1\/ca0\/cr0\/ss0\/cac000\/cpc000\/pcfff\/tcfff\/fs100\/szw320\/szh135\/tatTime%20left%20to%20Election%20Day%2C%202024\/tac000\/tptTime%20since%20Event%20started%20in\/tpc000\/mac000\/mpc000\/iso2024-11-05T00:00:00\/bo2\/pd2\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"322\" height=\"137\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a name=\"swing\"\/>Friday\u2019s RCP Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"1001\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21.png 571w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At this point, we should entertain the hypothesis that the Bragg verdict is a damp squib, unless Biden can somehow leverage it in the debate. Swing States (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/03\/introduction-to-swing-states-in-the-presidential-election-of-2024-general-survey.html\">more here<\/a>) still Brownian-motioning around. Of course, it goes without saying that these are all state polls, therefore bad, and most of the results are within the margin of error. If will be interesting to see whether the verdict in Judge Merchan\u2019s court affects the polling, and if so, how. NOTE Sorry for the excess red dots; I can\u2019t seem to make them go away!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cCampaign walks back Trump\u2019s green card promise\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/campaign-walks-back-trumps-green-card-promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cFormer President Trump\u2019s campaign walked back a promise that the former president would \u2018automatically\u2019 award green cards to migrants after they graduate from college. \u2018President Trump has made it clear that on day one of his new administration, he\u2019s going to shut down the border and launch the largest mass deportation effort of illegal aliens in history,\u2019 Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last week, according to a New York Post report, noting that the former president would include an \u2018aggressive vetting process\u2019 and \u2018exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.\u2019 The comments come after Trump\u2019s appearance on the \u201cAll-in Podcast\u201d last week, where the former president outlined an idea to give all foreign college graduates a green card with their diploma.\u201d \u2022 Let Trump be Trump!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Biden (D): \u201cGreenwashing Kamala Harris: How the Veep Casts Herself as an Environmental Justice Crusader\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/06\/25\/greenwashing_kamala_harris_how_the_veep_misleadlingly_casts_herself_as_an_environmental_justice_crusader_1039776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>]. \u201cVice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts to fight for social and environmental justice. \u2018When I was elected DA of San Francisco,\u2019 Harris told a gathering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last year, \u2018I started the first environmental justice unit of any DA\u2019s office in the country.\u2019 In her telling, the San Francisco District Attorney formed the special environmental justice unit in the early 2000s especially to protect the long-neglected community of Bayview Hunters Point, a predominantly African American and impoverished part of the city, which had become \u2018a dumping ground for people from other places.\u2019 \u2026 But records from the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s office and interviews with local environmental advocates point to a different, far less ambitious record. \u2018We\u2019re unaware of any major or semi-major environmental justice work done by Harris in Bayview Hunters Point, including on the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site,\u2019 said Bradley Angel, executive director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, a progressive watchdog group that seeks to \u2018to promote environmental, social, economic and climate justice.\u2019 Steve Castleman, an attorney with UC Berkeley\u2019s Environmental Law Clinic, who has worked on urban pollution issues in the Bay Area, also noted that he did not know of any significant Harris environmental justice action as DA. Far from targeting powerful corporate interests, Harris\u2019 environmental justice unit appears to have filed only a few lawsuits, all against small-time defendants. The targets included a young man who conducted illegal smog checks at a small auto body shop in the city and a left-leaning community newspaper accused of illegally dumping leftover ink in an abandoned lot. Another defendant charged by the unit was a small construction company accused of using adulterated concrete. The major industrial polluters of San Francisco were left untouched under Harris\u2019 watch during her two terms that ended in 2010.\u201d \u2022 Oh.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy (I): On Assange:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Julian Assange struck a plea deal and will go free! I am overjoyed. He’s a generational hero.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1805389415663255819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"debates\"\/>The Debates: \u201cThe Little Secret I\u2019ve Learned From 30 Years of Watching Debates With Voters\u201d [Frank Luntz, <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2024\/06\/24\/the-little-secret-ive-learned-from-30-years-of-watching-debates-with-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201cNothing draws the ire of the average voter more than candidates speaking beyond their allotted time, my focus groups have shown. While most professional debate observers ignore candidates who run long, voters punish them mercilessly. It was a major reason many undecided voters turned so strongly against Mr. Trump after his undisciplined performance in the first debate in 2020. That debate, the most consequential one in memory, was one in which many voters and political experts drew roughly the same conclusions. Mr. Trump entered the debate trailing Mr. Biden by just a couple of percentage points, but his questionable strategy to insult, badger and bully Mr. Biden was received so badly by the women in my focus group that they were as harsh about Mr. Trump as he was to Mr. Biden. In contrast, there was one moment in the Trump-Clinton debates when voter opinion really struck me. It was Mr. Trump\u2019s offhand comment that Mrs. Clinton belonged in jail. Many pundits and political experts hated it. My focus group loved it. For them, it was accountability in action for someone as important as her, a former secretary of state. To be sure, many political experts zeroed in on the moment as a striking instance of a presidential nominee threatening to weaponize the justice system against his opponent. But I think what they missed was a yearning among some voters to see a senior official held to account and not let off the hook by a system seen as protecting insiders.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m sure that Trump\u2019s campaign team was <em>happy<\/em> with the microphone muting, for the reason Luntz gives.<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cDebates Are Lost, Not Won\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/06\/25\/debates_are_lost_not_won_151156.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cTrump\u2019s risk is less what he says and more how he acts. Will he seem unhinged, overbearing, or out of control? Biden\u2019s risk is also less what he says, and more how he looks saying it. Will he seem frail, disoriented, or too old?\u201d \u2022 One again, the muted microphones are a plus for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cYou Don\u2019t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way\u201d [Harold Mayerson, <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/politics\/2024-06-24-you-dont-need-shrink-biden-trump-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The American Prospect<\/a>]. \u201cSo Biden and his campaign have no need to lower expectations going into the debate, though that\u2019s common practice for presidential candidates. Trump and his ilk have already done that for him, day in and day out for the past couple of years. If Biden actually can stand up [let\u2019s not talk about his gait, eh?] and remember things, he will have undercut the one perception most damaging to his prospects: that he\u2019s too old to be president\u2014at least, when compared to Trump. For which reason, ironically, Biden goes into the debate having to surmount the same hurdle as novice candidates (a category in which Biden certainly does not belong): demonstrating that he\u2019s simply up to the job.\u201d \u2022 Strikes me as a debater\u2019s point (though yes, I think diagnosis from digital evidence is both over-the-top and not needed).<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cFirst debate a chance for Biden to finish the Trump smackdown he started during State of the Union\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/06\/25\/first-debate-a-chance-for-biden-to-finish-the-smackdown-he-started-during-state-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salon<\/a>]. A collection of \u201czingers.\u201d More: \u201c\u2018A convicted criminal who\u2019s only out for himself.\u2019 President Biden\u2019s campaign last week launched a $50 million TV <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6989397\/joe-biden-ad-donald-trump-criminal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ad<\/a> buy whose key line shows how to capture two central truths about Trump. The first \u2014 that the former president is a \u2018convicted criminal\u2019 \u2014 speaks for itself and is hard for Trump to escape. The second part of the ad \u2013 \u2018he\u2019s in it only for himself\u2019 is equally important. Biden can quote Bill Barr, Trump\u2019s own attorney general, who said about Trump, \u2018He will always put his own interests . . . ahead of everything else.’\u201d \u2022 Quoting people who have worked for Trump (there are other examples in the article) is an interesting tactic and might get The Donald riled up.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Joe Biden\u2019s bizarre behavior a GOP \u2018cheap fake\u2019? It\u2019s up to him to prove that he\u2019s OK.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2024\/06\/24\/debate-trump-biden-video-decline-election\/74155176007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cCheap fake essentially means a real video is edited in a way to become misleading. I\u2019ve seen various versions of all the videos, however, and regardless of how they were edited or framed, Biden does not come out looking good. I encourage you to watch them for yourselves. Calling them cheap fakes is bad enough, but Jean-Pierre went further and outright lied about these clips being \u2018deepfakes,\u2019 which implies false content created through artificial intelligence or other technology.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/nation-world\/white-house-claims-recent-viral-videos-of-biden-are-actually-deepfakes-president-joe-biden-karine-jean-pierre-normandy-france-apulia-italy-g7-summit-2024-election-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The full Jean-Pierre quote<\/a>: \u201cInstead of talking about the president\u2019s performance in office \u2014 and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he\u2019s been able to do for people across this country \u2014 we\u2019re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos.\u201d \u2022 From this wording, it\u2019s also possible that Jean-Pierre is simply ignorant, and thinks that \u201cdeepfake\u201d and \u201cmanipulated video\u201d are synonyms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clinton Legacy<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"clinton\"\/>\u201cHillary Clinton to warn voters in book coming 7 weeks before election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/25\/hillary-clinton-book-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>] \u201cJust seven weeks before the election, Hillary Rodham Clinton will release a book called \u201c<em>Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty<\/em>,\u201d which is billed as \u2018Hillary like you haven\u2019t seen her before.’\u201d I hope not. More: \u201cThe book includes \u2018new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin.’\u201d \u2022 Geopolitics is always <em>personal<\/em> with these people; I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a grift, I think it\u2019s how they genuinely think, if either of those two words is the word I want. Everything is like high school. And speaking of making it personal, I wonder if Mother\u2019s book will include this:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never forget\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When Julian Assange was releasing US Government war crimes back in 2010, Hillary Clinton proposed drone striking him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oObqv6iT91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/oObqv6iT91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1805430176412573745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Republican Funhouse<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They just can\u2019t help themselves:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House GOP is trying to cut the Antitrust Division by 20% and gut the legislation that passed in 2022 to increase funding when there\u2019s more mergers. Populism!<\/p>\n<p>(And to be clear this is the budget for next year, so it could be Trump\u2019s antitrust division\u2026) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RJah1myYNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/RJah1myYNw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/1805601609516274160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats <em>en D\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; 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MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&subtopic=recurring-updates&indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/udwq.shinyapps.io\/sarscov2_surv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/see-the-numbers\/covid-19-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Censorship and Propaganda<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA resource for COVID-19 research and information [<a href=\"https:\/\/youhavetoliveyour.life\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cYou Have To Live Your Life\u201d<\/a>] \u2022 Maps minimizing, eugenicist clich\u00e9 to counter-evidence using dropdowns:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There should really be a word for \u201cminimizing, eugenicist clich\u00e9.\u201d Perhaps in German?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prevention<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd Now Xylitol\u201d [Derek Lowe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/and-now-xylitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science<\/a>]. \u201cThe authors studies two large and separate cohorts of patients across several years, and fasting xylitol concentration in the blood certainly seems to be correlated with major adverse coronary events, along with stroke\u2026 The evidence looks pretty solid, although the mechanism (as with erythritol) is still something of a mystery. \u2026 At any rate, I would regard these studies as reason enough to avoid both of these compounds as sweeteners, and I would extend the caution to the other sugar alcohols as well (maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, etc.) We really need to understand more about these things, and ditching the sugar-free gummy candies and the like seems like a prudent move.\u201d \u2022 So I guess Xylitol chewing gum as a Covid preventative is out? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"covid\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) This week\u2019s wastewater map, with hot spots annotated. The numbers in the right hand column are identical. The dots on the map are not.<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.3 dominating.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ER) This is the best I can do for now. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Now a jump, which <em>is<\/em> be compatible with a wastewater decrease, but still not a good feeling .(The New York city area has form; in 2020, as the home of two international airports (JFK and EWR) it was an important entry point for the virus into the country (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, as the rich sought to escape, and then around the country through air travel.)<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). This is the best I can do for now. Note the assumption that Covid is seasonal is built into the presentation. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; big jump. (Because there is data in \u201ccurrent view\u201d tab, I think white states here have experienced \u201cno change,\u201d as opposed to have no data.)<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Still going up!<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Up. Those sh*theads at CDC have changed the chart so that it doesn\u2019t even run back to 1\/21\/23, as it used to, but now starts 1\/1\/24. There\u2019s also no way to adjust the time rasnge. CDC really doesn\u2019t want you to be able to take a historical view of the pandemic, or compare one surge to another. In an any case, that\u2019s why the shape of the curve has changed.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants) Same deal. Those sh*theads. I\u2019m leaving this here for another week because I loathe them so much:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"544\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week.png 601w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, but positivity up.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Economy\u201d: \u201cUnited States Chicago Fed National Activity Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/chicago-fed-national-activity-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe Chicago Fed National Activity Index increased to +0.18 in May 2024, the highest in three months, up from a revised -0.26 in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/richmond-fed-manufacturing-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe composite manufacturing index in the US Fifth District slumped to -10 in June of 2024 from the neutral reading of 0 in the earlier period, a sharp contrast to market expectations of a 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 39 Fear (previous close: 39 Fear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 44 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jun 25 at 1:47:21 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"counting\"\/>\u201cThe Triumph of Counting and Scripting\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/life\/2024\/06\/doctors-teachers-dissatisfaction-tracking-charting-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salon<\/a>]. \u201cErin Nash was a hospital chaplain whose job was to be with people in some of their worst moments, praying, holding hands, even singing with them. Shadowing her on her rounds, I watched as she managed to create brief peaceful moments with suffering patients and their families again and again, making temporary sanctuary between the thin blue medical curtains despite the buzzing alarms, fluorescent lighting, and constant stream of footsteps on the linoleum floors nearby. I was surprised to learn that in addition to consoling the bereaved and calming the anxious, Erin (the names in this piece have been changed) had to fill out three separate charts\u2014including the standard electronic health records system that many clinicians use\u2014for every person she visited. She even carried around a cheat sheet to help her remember the codes, murmuring, under her breath, \u2018Asking for a prayer is a resource, family together is a resource,\u201d while she hunted and pecked at the keyboard. Nobody was being billed for Erin\u2019s work, so why was she charting in triplicate? To find the answer, I spent five years talking to workers like Erin, as well as the managers and engineers who are trying to design and impose the systems that control her work. Ultimately, the spread of data analytics into feeling labor is more than just the latest frontier in an inexorable drive toward increasing efficiency everywhere. It has implications for A.I., the future of work, and the stratification of human contact.\u201d \u2022 Reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/break-up-made-easier-with-colorful-visual-aids-1819565783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this from The Onion<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst we shape our social graph; then it shapes us\u201d [Henrik Karlsson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrikkarlsson.xyz\/p\/first-we-shape-our-social-graph-then\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Escaping Flatland<\/a>]. \u201cI\u2019ve been using the word culture so far, but that is not the exact word for what I am gesturing at. It is not the wider culture we internalize; it is the particular set of influences that surround us, what Tim Urban has called \u2018our unique cultural intersection\u2019. Is there a word for this? I don\u2019t know. But discussing the terminology with GPT-3, a large language model, it suggests I use the word milieu, which sounds sophisticated in a distinctly French way. This I can live with. A milieu, says GPT-3, is the culture contained in your unique set of connections. (Merriam Webster\u2019s dictionary says \u2018the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops.\u2019) Unlike the word culture, as anthropologists invoke it when they talk about \u2018French culture\u2019 or \u2018Balinese culture,\u2019 a milieu is not a monolithic thing. Your milieu is not the same as your sister\u2019s. It is an ever-shifting, individual configuration of information flows. The Twitter feed you have curated is a milieu. Your friend group (which is not the same as the friend groups of the other people in that group!) is a milieu. It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself. Curating our milieu is something we all do these days, if not always consciously.\u201d \u2022 <\/p>\n<p><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not feeling wired today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/06\/200pm-water-cooler-6-24-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Th writes: \u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky in that the prior owners of our property never used chemicals. Neither do we and as a result, the amphibians love to hang out in our yard. The perennial geranium just started to bloom and will come on strong this week after the rain.\u201d \u201cSkink\u201d is, IIRC, the name of a dealer in <em>Spook Country<\/em>. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eastern Meadowlark, Illinois Prairie Path\u2013DuPage Airport, DuPage, Illinois, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"#debates\"> The Debates<\/a>, pre-game analysis.<\/p>\n<p>(2) <a href=\"#clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> has a book forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>(3) <a href=\"#counting\">Counting and scripting\/a> in the caring professions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>2024<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Less than a half a year to go!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/countdown\/i8ubjj5e\/n179\/cf100\/cm0\/cu1\/ct0\/cs1\/ca0\/cr0\/ss0\/cac000\/cpc000\/pcfff\/tcfff\/fs100\/szw320\/szh135\/tatTime%20left%20to%20Election%20Day%2C%202024\/tac000\/tptTime%20since%20Event%20started%20in\/tpc000\/mac000\/mpc000\/iso2024-11-05T00:00:00\/bo2\/pd2\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"322\" height=\"137\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a name=\"swing\"\/>Friday\u2019s RCP Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"1001\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21.png 571w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rcp_2024-06-21-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At this point, we should entertain the hypothesis that the Bragg verdict is a damp squib, unless Biden can somehow leverage it in the debate. Swing States (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/03\/introduction-to-swing-states-in-the-presidential-election-of-2024-general-survey.html\">more here<\/a>) still Brownian-motioning around. Of course, it goes without saying that these are all state polls, therefore bad, and most of the results are within the margin of error. If will be interesting to see whether the verdict in Judge Merchan\u2019s court affects the polling, and if so, how. NOTE Sorry for the excess red dots; I can\u2019t seem to make them go away!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cCampaign walks back Trump\u2019s green card promise\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/campaign-walks-back-trumps-green-card-promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cFormer President Trump\u2019s campaign walked back a promise that the former president would \u2018automatically\u2019 award green cards to migrants after they graduate from college. \u2018President Trump has made it clear that on day one of his new administration, he\u2019s going to shut down the border and launch the largest mass deportation effort of illegal aliens in history,\u2019 Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last week, according to a New York Post report, noting that the former president would include an \u2018aggressive vetting process\u2019 and \u2018exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.\u2019 The comments come after Trump\u2019s appearance on the \u201cAll-in Podcast\u201d last week, where the former president outlined an idea to give all foreign college graduates a green card with their diploma.\u201d \u2022 Let Trump be Trump!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Biden (D): \u201cGreenwashing Kamala Harris: How the Veep Casts Herself as an Environmental Justice Crusader\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/06\/25\/greenwashing_kamala_harris_how_the_veep_misleadlingly_casts_herself_as_an_environmental_justice_crusader_1039776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>]. \u201cVice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts to fight for social and environmental justice. \u2018When I was elected DA of San Francisco,\u2019 Harris told a gathering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last year, \u2018I started the first environmental justice unit of any DA\u2019s office in the country.\u2019 In her telling, the San Francisco District Attorney formed the special environmental justice unit in the early 2000s especially to protect the long-neglected community of Bayview Hunters Point, a predominantly African American and impoverished part of the city, which had become \u2018a dumping ground for people from other places.\u2019 \u2026 But records from the San Francisco District Attorney\u2019s office and interviews with local environmental advocates point to a different, far less ambitious record. \u2018We\u2019re unaware of any major or semi-major environmental justice work done by Harris in Bayview Hunters Point, including on the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund site,\u2019 said Bradley Angel, executive director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, a progressive watchdog group that seeks to \u2018to promote environmental, social, economic and climate justice.\u2019 Steve Castleman, an attorney with UC Berkeley\u2019s Environmental Law Clinic, who has worked on urban pollution issues in the Bay Area, also noted that he did not know of any significant Harris environmental justice action as DA. Far from targeting powerful corporate interests, Harris\u2019 environmental justice unit appears to have filed only a few lawsuits, all against small-time defendants. The targets included a young man who conducted illegal smog checks at a small auto body shop in the city and a left-leaning community newspaper accused of illegally dumping leftover ink in an abandoned lot. Another defendant charged by the unit was a small construction company accused of using adulterated concrete. The major industrial polluters of San Francisco were left untouched under Harris\u2019 watch during her two terms that ended in 2010.\u201d \u2022 Oh.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy (I): On Assange:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Julian Assange struck a plea deal and will go free! I am overjoyed. He’s a generational hero.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1805389415663255819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"debates\"\/>The Debates: \u201cThe Little Secret I\u2019ve Learned From 30 Years of Watching Debates With Voters\u201d [Frank Luntz, <a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2024\/06\/24\/the-little-secret-ive-learned-from-30-years-of-watching-debates-with-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Times<\/a>]. \u201cNothing draws the ire of the average voter more than candidates speaking beyond their allotted time, my focus groups have shown. While most professional debate observers ignore candidates who run long, voters punish them mercilessly. It was a major reason many undecided voters turned so strongly against Mr. Trump after his undisciplined performance in the first debate in 2020. That debate, the most consequential one in memory, was one in which many voters and political experts drew roughly the same conclusions. Mr. Trump entered the debate trailing Mr. Biden by just a couple of percentage points, but his questionable strategy to insult, badger and bully Mr. Biden was received so badly by the women in my focus group that they were as harsh about Mr. Trump as he was to Mr. Biden. In contrast, there was one moment in the Trump-Clinton debates when voter opinion really struck me. It was Mr. Trump\u2019s offhand comment that Mrs. Clinton belonged in jail. Many pundits and political experts hated it. My focus group loved it. For them, it was accountability in action for someone as important as her, a former secretary of state. To be sure, many political experts zeroed in on the moment as a striking instance of a presidential nominee threatening to weaponize the justice system against his opponent. But I think what they missed was a yearning among some voters to see a senior official held to account and not let off the hook by a system seen as protecting insiders.\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m sure that Trump\u2019s campaign team was <em>happy<\/em> with the microphone muting, for the reason Luntz gives.<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cDebates Are Lost, Not Won\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/06\/25\/debates_are_lost_not_won_151156.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201cTrump\u2019s risk is less what he says and more how he acts. Will he seem unhinged, overbearing, or out of control? Biden\u2019s risk is also less what he says, and more how he looks saying it. Will he seem frail, disoriented, or too old?\u201d \u2022 One again, the muted microphones are a plus for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cYou Don\u2019t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way\u201d [Harold Mayerson, <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/politics\/2024-06-24-you-dont-need-shrink-biden-trump-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The American Prospect<\/a>]. \u201cSo Biden and his campaign have no need to lower expectations going into the debate, though that\u2019s common practice for presidential candidates. Trump and his ilk have already done that for him, day in and day out for the past couple of years. If Biden actually can stand up [let\u2019s not talk about his gait, eh?] and remember things, he will have undercut the one perception most damaging to his prospects: that he\u2019s too old to be president\u2014at least, when compared to Trump. For which reason, ironically, Biden goes into the debate having to surmount the same hurdle as novice candidates (a category in which Biden certainly does not belong): demonstrating that he\u2019s simply up to the job.\u201d \u2022 Strikes me as a debater\u2019s point (though yes, I think diagnosis from digital evidence is both over-the-top and not needed).<\/p>\n<p>The Debates: \u201cFirst debate a chance for Biden to finish the Trump smackdown he started during State of the Union\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/06\/25\/first-debate-a-chance-for-biden-to-finish-the-smackdown-he-started-during-state-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salon<\/a>]. A collection of \u201czingers.\u201d More: \u201c\u2018A convicted criminal who\u2019s only out for himself.\u2019 President Biden\u2019s campaign last week launched a $50 million TV <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6989397\/joe-biden-ad-donald-trump-criminal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ad<\/a> buy whose key line shows how to capture two central truths about Trump. The first \u2014 that the former president is a \u2018convicted criminal\u2019 \u2014 speaks for itself and is hard for Trump to escape. The second part of the ad \u2013 \u2018he\u2019s in it only for himself\u2019 is equally important. Biden can quote Bill Barr, Trump\u2019s own attorney general, who said about Trump, \u2018He will always put his own interests . . . ahead of everything else.’\u201d \u2022 Quoting people who have worked for Trump (there are other examples in the article) is an interesting tactic and might get The Donald riled up.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Joe Biden\u2019s bizarre behavior a GOP \u2018cheap fake\u2019? It\u2019s up to him to prove that he\u2019s OK.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2024\/06\/24\/debate-trump-biden-video-decline-election\/74155176007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cCheap fake essentially means a real video is edited in a way to become misleading. I\u2019ve seen various versions of all the videos, however, and regardless of how they were edited or framed, Biden does not come out looking good. I encourage you to watch them for yourselves. Calling them cheap fakes is bad enough, but Jean-Pierre went further and outright lied about these clips being \u2018deepfakes,\u2019 which implies false content created through artificial intelligence or other technology.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/nation-world\/white-house-claims-recent-viral-videos-of-biden-are-actually-deepfakes-president-joe-biden-karine-jean-pierre-normandy-france-apulia-italy-g7-summit-2024-election-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The full Jean-Pierre quote<\/a>: \u201cInstead of talking about the president\u2019s performance in office \u2014 and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he\u2019s been able to do for people across this country \u2014 we\u2019re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos.\u201d \u2022 From this wording, it\u2019s also possible that Jean-Pierre is simply ignorant, and thinks that \u201cdeepfake\u201d and \u201cmanipulated video\u201d are synonyms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Clinton Legacy<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"clinton\"\/>\u201cHillary Clinton to warn voters in book coming 7 weeks before election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/25\/hillary-clinton-book-2024-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>] \u201cJust seven weeks before the election, Hillary Rodham Clinton will release a book called \u201c<em>Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty<\/em>,\u201d which is billed as \u2018Hillary like you haven\u2019t seen her before.’\u201d I hope not. More: \u201cThe book includes \u2018new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin.’\u201d \u2022 Geopolitics is always <em>personal<\/em> with these people; I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a grift, I think it\u2019s how they genuinely think, if either of those two words is the word I want. Everything is like high school. And speaking of making it personal, I wonder if Mother\u2019s book will include this:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Never forget\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When Julian Assange was releasing US Government war crimes back in 2010, Hillary Clinton proposed drone striking him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oObqv6iT91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/oObqv6iT91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1805430176412573745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Republican Funhouse<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They just can\u2019t help themselves:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House GOP is trying to cut the Antitrust Division by 20% and gut the legislation that passed in 2022 to increase funding when there\u2019s more mergers. Populism!<\/p>\n<p>(And to be clear this is the budget for next year, so it could be Trump\u2019s antitrust division\u2026) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RJah1myYNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/RJah1myYNw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/1805601609516274160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats <em>en D\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Syndemics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk&null=Risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>); Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>, <del><a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biobot<\/a><\/del>; includes many counties; <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wastewater Scan<\/a>, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/businesssolutions\/covid-19-index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a>); \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/iowacovid19tracker.org\/hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iowa COVID-19 Tracker<\/a>\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/icemsg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Infection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts<\/a>\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Resources, United States (Local): AK (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/6d2771faa9da4a2786a509d82c8cf0f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AR (<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/633006d0782b4544bd5113a314f6268a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); AZ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/covid19\/data\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); CA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/COVID-19\/CalSuWers-Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marin, dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthalerts.stanford.edu\/covid-19\/wastewater-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stanford, wastewater<\/a>; 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MI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/coronavirus\/stats\/wastewater-surveillance\/dashboard\/sentinel-wastewater-epidemiology-evaluation-project-sweep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/gisportal.state.mi.us\/portal\/apps\/insights\/index.html#\/view\/52bbb104ed574887918f990af9f3debe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/coronavirus\/stats\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MO (<a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/f7f5492486114da6b5d6fdc07f81aacf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MS (<a href=\"https:\/\/msdh.ms.gov\/page\/14,0,420.html#Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>MT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapSeries\/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; NC (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.ncdhhs.gov\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard)<\/a>; ND (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.nd.gov\/health\/coronavirus\/cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NE (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlas-dhhs.ne.gov\/Atlas\/Respiratory_Illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NH (<a href=\"https:\/\/wisdom.dhhs.nh.gov\/wisdom\/dashboard.html?topic=covid-19&subtopic=recurring-updates&indicator=covid-19-wastewater#tabnavbarid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); NJ (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.nj.gov\/forms\/datadashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NM (<a href=\"https:\/\/cvprovider.nmhealth.org\/public-dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); NV (<a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthresponse.nv.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/empower.unlv.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Southern NV); NY (<a href=\"https:\/\/mbcolli.shinyapps.io\/SARS2EWSP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OH (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/dashboards\/other-resources\/wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); OK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51657c21386d4f1a962b1853c76ec589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); <del>OR (<a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19\/viz\/OregonsCOVID-19DataDashboards-TableofContents\/TableofContentsStatewide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>)<\/del>; PA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.pa.gov\/topics\/disease\/coronavirus\/pages\/Cases.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SC (<a href=\"https:\/\/scdhec.gov\/index.php\/covid19\/covid-19-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); SD (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/health\/cedep\/ncov\/data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); TX (<a href=\"https:\/\/txdshsea.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/4ae43eefd0f641d59d35c3df82ee59cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); UT (<a href=\"https:\/\/udwq.shinyapps.io\/sarscov2_surv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/see-the-numbers\/covid-19-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); VT (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WA (<a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/emergencies\/covid-19\/data-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.bfhd.wa.gov\/cases-and-roadmap-to-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); WI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.wisconsin.gov\/covid-19\/wastewater.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); WV (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/oehs.wvdhhr.org\/news\/oehs-coivd-19-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>); WY (<del><a href=\"https:\/\/covidwastewatermonitor.wyo.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a><\/del>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (<a href=\"https:\/\/health-infobase.canada.ca\/covid-19\/wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Government of Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealthontario.ca\/en\/Data-and-Analysis\/Infectious-Disease\/COVID-19-Data-Surveillance\/Wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); QC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/covid-19\/donnees\/eaux-usees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>les eaux us\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>); BC (<a href=\"https:\/\/bccdc.shinyapps.io\/respiratory_wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); BC, Vancouver (<a href=\"https:\/\/metrovancouver.org\/services\/liquid-waste\/testing-for-the-covid-19-virus-in-wastewater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Censorship and Propaganda<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA resource for COVID-19 research and information [<a href=\"https:\/\/youhavetoliveyour.life\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cYou Have To Live Your Life\u201d<\/a>] \u2022 Maps minimizing, eugenicist clich\u00e9 to counter-evidence using dropdowns:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/live_your_life-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There should really be a word for \u201cminimizing, eugenicist clich\u00e9.\u201d Perhaps in German?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prevention<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd Now Xylitol\u201d [Derek Lowe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/and-now-xylitol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science<\/a>]. \u201cThe authors studies two large and separate cohorts of patients across several years, and fasting xylitol concentration in the blood certainly seems to be correlated with major adverse coronary events, along with stroke\u2026 The evidence looks pretty solid, although the mechanism (as with erythritol) is still something of a mystery. \u2026 At any rate, I would regard these studies as reason enough to avoid both of these compounds as sweeteners, and I would extend the caution to the other sugar alcohols as well (maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, etc.) We really need to understand more about these things, and ditching the sugar-free gummy candies and the like seems like a prudent move.\u201d \u2022 So I guess Xylitol chewing gum as a Covid preventative is out? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"covid\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) This week\u2019s wastewater map, with hot spots annotated. The numbers in the right hand column are identical. The dots on the map are not.<\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) KP.3 dominating.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ER) This is the best I can do for now. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Now a jump, which <em>is<\/em> be compatible with a wastewater decrease, but still not a good feeling .(The New York city area has form; in 2020, as the home of two international airports (JFK and EWR) it was an important entry point for the virus into the country (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, as the rich sought to escape, and then around the country through air travel.)<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). This is the best I can do for now. Note the assumption that Covid is seasonal is built into the presentation. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; big jump. (Because there is data in \u201ccurrent view\u201d tab, I think white states here have experienced \u201cno change,\u201d as opposed to have no data.)<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Still going up!<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Up. Those sh*theads at CDC have changed the chart so that it doesn\u2019t even run back to 1\/21\/23, as it used to, but now starts 1\/1\/24. There\u2019s also no way to adjust the time rasnge. CDC really doesn\u2019t want you to be able to take a historical view of the pandemic, or compare one surge to another. In an any case, that\u2019s why the shape of the curve has changed.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants) Same deal. Those sh*theads. I\u2019m leaving this here for another week because I loathe them so much:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"544\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week.png 601w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/last_week-300x272.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, but positivity up.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Economy\u201d: \u201cUnited States Chicago Fed National Activity Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/chicago-fed-national-activity-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe Chicago Fed National Activity Index increased to +0.18 in May 2024, the highest in three months, up from a revised -0.26 in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/richmond-fed-manufacturing-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cThe composite manufacturing index in the US Fifth District slumped to -10 in June of 2024 from the neutral reading of 0 in the earlier period, a sharp contrast to market expectations of a 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 39 Fear (previous close: 39 Fear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 44 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jun 25 at 1:47:21 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"counting\"\/>\u201cThe Triumph of Counting and Scripting\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/life\/2024\/06\/doctors-teachers-dissatisfaction-tracking-charting-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salon<\/a>]. \u201cErin Nash was a hospital chaplain whose job was to be with people in some of their worst moments, praying, holding hands, even singing with them. Shadowing her on her rounds, I watched as she managed to create brief peaceful moments with suffering patients and their families again and again, making temporary sanctuary between the thin blue medical curtains despite the buzzing alarms, fluorescent lighting, and constant stream of footsteps on the linoleum floors nearby. I was surprised to learn that in addition to consoling the bereaved and calming the anxious, Erin (the names in this piece have been changed) had to fill out three separate charts\u2014including the standard electronic health records system that many clinicians use\u2014for every person she visited. She even carried around a cheat sheet to help her remember the codes, murmuring, under her breath, \u2018Asking for a prayer is a resource, family together is a resource,\u201d while she hunted and pecked at the keyboard. Nobody was being billed for Erin\u2019s work, so why was she charting in triplicate? To find the answer, I spent five years talking to workers like Erin, as well as the managers and engineers who are trying to design and impose the systems that control her work. Ultimately, the spread of data analytics into feeling labor is more than just the latest frontier in an inexorable drive toward increasing efficiency everywhere. It has implications for A.I., the future of work, and the stratification of human contact.\u201d \u2022 Reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/break-up-made-easier-with-colorful-visual-aids-1819565783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this from The Onion<\/a>\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst we shape our social graph; then it shapes us\u201d [Henrik Karlsson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrikkarlsson.xyz\/p\/first-we-shape-our-social-graph-then\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Escaping Flatland<\/a>]. \u201cI\u2019ve been using the word culture so far, but that is not the exact word for what I am gesturing at. It is not the wider culture we internalize; it is the particular set of influences that surround us, what Tim Urban has called \u2018our unique cultural intersection\u2019. Is there a word for this? I don\u2019t know. But discussing the terminology with GPT-3, a large language model, it suggests I use the word milieu, which sounds sophisticated in a distinctly French way. This I can live with. A milieu, says GPT-3, is the culture contained in your unique set of connections. (Merriam Webster\u2019s dictionary says \u2018the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops.\u2019) Unlike the word culture, as anthropologists invoke it when they talk about \u2018French culture\u2019 or \u2018Balinese culture,\u2019 a milieu is not a monolithic thing. Your milieu is not the same as your sister\u2019s. It is an ever-shifting, individual configuration of information flows. The Twitter feed you have curated is a milieu. Your friend group (which is not the same as the friend groups of the other people in that group!) is a milieu. It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself. Curating our milieu is something we all do these days, if not always consciously.\u201d \u2022 <\/p>\n<p><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not feeling wired today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact information for plants<\/strong>: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants. Vegetables are fine! Fungi, lichen, and coral are deemed to be honorary plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please place it at the start of your mail in parentheses: (thus). Otherwise, I will anonymize by using your initials. See the previous Water Cooler (with plant) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/06\/200pm-water-cooler-6-24-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/skink-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Th writes: \u201cWe\u2019ve been lucky in that the prior owners of our property never used chemicals. Neither do we and as a result, the amphibians love to hang out in our yard. The perennial geranium just started to bloom and will come on strong this week after the rain.\u201d \u201cSkink\u201d is, IIRC, the name of a dealer in <em>Spook Country<\/em>. But this ampihibian seems quite nice!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"donate\"\/><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Water Cooler is a standalone entity <em>not<\/em> covered by the annual NC fundraiser. So if you see a link you especially like, or an item you wouldn\u2019t see anywhere else, please do not hesitate to express your appreciation in tangible form. Remember, a tip jar is for tipping! <em>Regular positive feedback both makes me feel good and lets me know I\u2019m on the right track with coverage<\/em>. When I get no donations for three or four days I get worried. 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