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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nBird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Common Nightingale, Rio Gil\u00e3o\u2013Ponte de S\u00e3o Domingues, Tavira, Faro, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Come, hoatzin, come, the game is afoot:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9731182795699\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.494623655914\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A bit of a dream achieved. One day in the Lower Amazon and I have ringed a Hoatzin. These are one of the most primitive birds in the world that is considered as being a step away from the archaeopteryx. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GaXSWkhV71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/GaXSWkhV71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 matt prior (@mattthesparrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattthesparrow\/status\/1849977776691970357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#biden\">Biden does call Trump supporters \u201cgarbage\u201d<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#exit\">About exit polling<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing contract talks resume.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Deluge\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/25\/after_the_deluge_1067586.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>]. \u201cBecause of its unexpected and painful destruction, western North Carolina has become another symbol of America\u2019s cultural divide. One side is the politicization of everything, as human suffering was quickly transformed into a partisan cudgel swung by party operatives and media outlets who fed the public versions of events that advanced their favored narratives. On the other side was the heroic story of people and government working together as best they could in cataclysmic circumstances to aid and comfort one another. That second, hopeful story is what I found while reporting in and around Asheville last week. In a hotel with no running water, guests, some of whom had multiple trees fall on their homes, made do. While the scene could resemble a pajama party gone wrong, with people shuffling to the Porto-Sans in the driveway and choosing not to comment on the smell of body odor in the elevator, most folks showed concern for what their fellow travelers were going through. They left food and drink on a table in the lobby, next to a paper plate onto which someone had written \u2018Take what you need.\u2019 They had neither the luxury nor desire to make political hay from their brethren\u2019s misery.\u201d \u2022 Worth reading in full (and somehow our societal response to emergency needs to integrate \u201cTake what you need\u201d with FEMA (which does, after all, scale);<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/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 wp_automatic_readability=\"239.15825507422\">\n<p>Countdown!<\/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=\"rcp\"\/>Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RCP<\/a> Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"968\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25.png 638w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25-624x947.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Tiny margins, but all red. If I were running the Kamala campaign, I\u2019d want to see some blue. Of course, we on the outside might as well be examining the entrails of birds when we try to predict what will happen to the subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars, especially, who will determine the outcome of the election but might as well be quantum foam, but presumably the campaign professionals have better data, and have the situation as under control as it can be <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"exit\"\/>\u201cHow exit polls work and how NBC News uses them on election night\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/exit-polls-how-work-voters-data-demographics-rcna175474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cAn exit poll is a survey of voters taken as they leave (or exit) their voting location. It\u2019s the only national survey of known voters in the country. It allows news organizations, researchers and voters to understand what\u2019s happening in an election as the results flow in\u2026. Since 2003, Edison Research, a firm that specializes in collecting election data, has conducted exit polls on behalf of the National Election Pool. The NEP is a consortium of media networks \u2014 ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC News \u2014 that pools together resources for one collective vote count and exit poll operation. NBC News independently analyzes and reports on the exit poll results\u2026 The NBC News Decision Desk uses some exit poll data to help project election results. However, the exit poll is primarily used as a reporting tool on election night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat time will we get exit polls for the US election?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2024\/10\/30\/what-time-will-we-get-us-election-exit-polls-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a>]. \u201cThe embargo period for exit polls will end at 5pm ET on polling day, after which news organisations are allowed to begin reporting results from individual states. However, at this point they are not permitted to project a winner while voting is still taking place. Exit polls will only be announced in states where the margins are large enough and they will not be used in the battleground states to project whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump have won. Instead, statisticians will use a combination of the exit poll, actual declared votes and other data to forecast a winner. Along with establishing how respondents voted, the exit poll also questions voters on their demographics and what motivated their decision. If one candidate has a significant lead over the other, then the result may be clear within a matter of hours. However, a fine margin of victory will mean delays in how long it will take for experts to declare whether Ms Harris or Trump has come out on top. Previous contests have taken days or even weeks to be called.\u201d \u2022 Exciting!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS election exit polls: Process and timing for results\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/us-election-exit-polls-process-and-timing-1730277524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RBC-Ukraine<\/a>]. \u201cOn Election Day, over 3,000 Edison Research employees will be stationed at polling places across the US, sending data to the central team office. They will work alongside several hundred phone operators to promptly gather and process survey results. In the 2020 presidential election, Edison Research surveyed over 100,000 voters. The company also deployed employees to 200 early voting sites across the country. Before Election Day, approximately 30,000 people who voted by mail were interviewed by phone. In the 2024 election, a similar number of respondents is expected.\u201d \u2022 On the phone interviews: If, as the Harris campaign suggested they do, wives lie to their husbands about how they vote, they\u2019ll be unlikely to disclose that to Edison if they might be overheard. So the Harris campaign has managed to bias the exit polls to Trump, albeit to an unknown degree. Good job!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia\u2019s elections are over. Opposition exit polls show 40% for the ruling party, while government polls report over 51%\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/jam-news.net\/georgia-election-exit-poll-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JAM News<\/a>]. \u201cAccording to an exit poll conducted by Gorbi for the pro-government TV channel Imedi, the results of the parliamentary elections are as follows: Georgian Dream \u2014 56.1%\u2026. According to an exit poll by Edison Research for the TV channel Formula, the vote distribution is as follows: Georgian Dream \u2014 40.9%.\u201d \u2022 Normally, I would think of Edison Research as rather like a dull and boring public utility. Here, however, we find them involved in what looks awfully like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/analysis\/232945.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rose Revolution 2.0<\/a>, complete with heavy NGO involvement, the usual street protests, pronouncements of election theft by Ursula von der Leyen, and no doubt a heavy leavening of spooks. Of course, even if the permission structure created by \u201cTrump is Hitler\u201d <em>does<\/em> allow spook-adjacency to Edison Research here at home, thinking that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/10\/democrat_war_games_could_they_try_for_a_color_revolution_after_a_trump_victory.html\">would actually happen<\/a> is tinfoil hat stuff, right? I certainly hope so!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNostradamus pollster reveals latest 2024 prediction \u2013 and how he\u2019s never had \u2018so much hate\u2019 in an election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/allan-lichtman-trump-harris-nostradamus-pollster-predictions-b2637999.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Independent<\/a>]. \u201cHistorian Allan Lichtman [of \u201cKeys to the White House\u201d fame] has insisted that he stands by his prediction about who will win the 2024 presidential race despite recent polls \u2013 and revealed that he has \u2018never experienced\u2019 so much \u2018hate\u2019 in an election cycle\u2026. \u2018I\u2019ve been getting feedback that is vulgar, violent, threatening, and even beyond that, the safety and security of my family has been compromised.’\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the race isn\u2019t as close as you think: With one week to go, analyst CRAIG KESHISHIAN predicts the polls are missing a hidden voter surge\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14013063\/trump-harris-early-vote-swing-states-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. \u201cAmericans living in Nevada and Arizona have had a front-row seat to the impact of mass illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration. In both of these states, registered Republican voters have cast more early ballots than registered Democrats \u2014 reversing a historic Democratic advantage. Of course, these early ballots do not reveal actual vote numbers, as they are not opened until Election Day. But this changing dynamic can\u2019t be ignored. As of Sunday, Republicans held a 33,500 ballot lead or 5.2 percent of the total early vote. Last week, Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, described the result as \u2018unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle\u2019 and said there is \u2018no good news\u2019 in the figures for Democrats.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Nixon\u2019s \u201csilent majority\u201d gets a do-over?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is in a strong poll position \u2013 does it matter?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-vs-harris-polls\/75880591007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cIn his third race for the presidency, Republican nominee Donald Trump has never been in as good of a poll position as he is now \u2013 but he\u2019ll have to wait at least a week to find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/27\/2024-presidential-race-trump-vs-harris-predictions-take-over-america\/75878643007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">whether it means anything<\/a>. As of Monday, Trump leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris<\/a> by as close a margin as possible \u2013 0.1% \u2013 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Clear Politics average<\/a> of recent polls. He trailed in the same survey by 7.5% four years ago against Joe Biden and 4.6% in 2016, the year he won the presidency against Hillary Clinton. The way Trump and his allies see it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/28\/presidential-election-polls-2024-harris-trump\/75889622007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the closer the polls<\/a> in the popular vote, the better his chances to win enough states to capture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/2016\/11\/08\/trump-clinton-target-social-media-swing-states-final-hours\/93494872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Electoral College and the presidency<\/a> \u2013 and he outperformed the polls in both of his previous races. Democrats say there is reason to doubt that will happen this time around. They said pollsters are compensating for what they call the \u2018hidden Trump voters\u2019 of the previous two elections, and, if anything, they are oversampling Republicans and inflating Trump\u2019s numbers. Republican candidates underperformed the polls in the 2022 congressional elections, Democrats said. And Trump consistently underperformed polls in a string of Republican primaries earlier this year.\u201d \u2022 And the polls are, after all, editorial products. So.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"garbage\"\/>\u201cGarbage.\u201d The video at :40:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"President Biden calls Trump supporters "garbage"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F54hZP_rWiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can see why Kamala\u2019s campaign would want to say <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4960815-biden-slams-trump-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">that Biden \u201cmisspoke,\u201d<\/a> but Biden\u2019s \u201cthe only garbage I see floatin\u2019 out there is his supporters\u201d seems clear to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden sets off election firestorm with \u2018garbage\u2019 comment\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/30\/biden-garbage-trump-supporters-puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cPresident Biden handed ammo to gleeful Republicans Tuesday night when he seemed to refer to former President Trump\u2019s supporters as \u201cgarbage.’\u201d He didn\u2019t \u201cseem.\u201d He did. More: \u201cBiden\u2019s comments are the latest example of why Kamala Harris\u2019 team has been avoiding campaigning with him. Biden is both unpopular and undisciplined, Harris aides told Axios. Harris delivered her \u2018closing argument\u2019 speech Tuesday night in front of the White House but Biden did not appear alongside her despite being in Washington.\u201d \u2022 Truly, Biden is the master of counter-programming (although I\u2019m not clear on whether Biden delivered these remarks <em>during<\/em> Kamala\u2019s speech).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump calls for supporters to \u2018forgive\u2019 Biden in show of unity after president calls supporters \u2018garbage’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-calls-supporters-forgive-biden-show-unity-after-president-calls-supporters-garbage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018Wow. That\u2019s terrible,\u2019 Trump said, invoking Hillary Clinton\u2019s infamous \u2018deplorable\u2019 remarks in the weeks before the 2016 election. \u2018And then she said irredeemable. That didn\u2019t work out.\u2019 The Republican nominee called on his supporters to forgive him during a packed rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. \u2018Garbage, I think, is worse,\u2019 he said. \u2018But he doesn\u2019t know. You have to please forgive him.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/luke\/23-34.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke 23:34<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden Walks Back Remarks About \u2018Garbage\u2019 At Madison Square Garden\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/joe-biden-walks-back-remarks-about-garbage-at-madison-square-garden\/ar-AA1taptK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>]. The headline is deceptive. Biden was clearly tallking about Trump supporters (one of long line of similar Democrat comments, starting with Obama\u2019s \u201cbitter\u201d people who \u201ccling to guns and religion,\u201d and moving on the Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables.\u201d More: \u201cAndrew Bates, a senior deputy press secretary at the White House, clarified [sic] that Biden was referring to the overarching rhetoric at the Manhattan rally as \u201cgarbage,\u201d not the people there to support Trump. He released a transcript that included an apostrophe in the president\u2019s remarks \u2015 \u2018his supporter\u2019s demonization\u2019 \u2015 to note the president was criticizing Hinchcliffe\u2019s words.\u201d \u2022 Nonsense. Comedians aren\u2019t \u201csupporters.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris responds to Biden \u2018garbage\u2019 remark for first time\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-campaign-silent-after-bidens-garbage-gaffe-referring-trump-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cBiden made his remark during a Zoom call on Tuesday with Voto Latino, one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the U.S. Harris, speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force Two, noted that Biden had \u201cclarified his comments.\u2019 \u2018I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote \u2018You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career. I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people, whether they support me or not.\u2019 Harris added that Biden had called her Tuesday night after the event, but she said they did not discuss his \u2018garbage\u2019 comment.\u201d \u2022 Oh? Why? <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>From the Lincoln Project, another ad encouraging wives to lie to their husbands:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Secret\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlsd1wZ9jF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The more I think about this\u2026 Normally, I resist overheated conservative fulminations that Democrats are out to destroy the sanctity of marriage, etc. etc. After all, social relations change through history, fortunately, despite conservative efforts to \u201cconserve\u201d them. However, in this ad, \u201cdestroying the sancity of marriage\u201d is, in fact, the object. The people who wrote the script and paid for the ad intend exactly that. What will be the <em>next<\/em> \u201cnoble lie\u201d? I\u2019m surprised the Trump campaign isn\u2019t all over this, because to me it\u2019s a genuinely extraordinary turn of events. Perhaps I\u2019m naive. Readers?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201cKamala Harris Makes Her Final Pitch for Voters to \u2018Turn the Page\u2019 on Donald Trump\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7138009\/kamala-harris-ellipse-speech-final-campaign-pitch-turn-page-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Time<\/a>]. \u201cIn a forceful, 30-minute speech, Harris asked voters to elect her and \u2018turn the page\u2019 on Trump. \u2018We know what Donald Trump has in mind: more chaos, more division, and policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path,\u2019 she said. Harris compared Trump to a \u2018petty tyrant\u2019 who is \u2018unstable,\u2019 \u2018obsessed with revenge,\u2019 and wants \u2018unchecked power.\u2019 She said he wants back in the Oval Office, ;not to focus on your problems but to focus on his.\u2019 Trump has signaled support for military tribunals for political enemies, promised to purge the federal bureaucracy of workers who don\u2019t agree with him, and said he\u2019d use the military against opponents he calls \u2018the enemy within.\u2019 Trump would come into the Oval Office with an \u2018enemies list,\u2019 Harris said. She\u2019ll show up with a \u2018to do list.’\u201d \u2022 Not that dealing with deplorables and traitors won\u2019t be things to do, of course. The list is a wonderful data structure!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201c\u2018The suburbs \u2014 that\u2019s the whole deal\u2019: How the suburbs became Harris\u2019 clearest path to victory\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/29\/harris-suburbs-votes-00186166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201cKamala Harris is counting on suburban voters to do what they\u2019ve done since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016: reject him. It may be the single most important piece of her electoral math. While Donald Trump has made inroads with Black and Latino men, polls in the late stage of the election show the suburbs could still power her to victory. The latest Wall Street Journal poll found Harris leading among suburban voters by 7 percentage points, while a Reuters\/Ipsos analysis showed the vice president winning suburban households by 6 points. If either of those numbers hold, they would likely be enough to offset Harris\u2019 erosion with Black, Latino and young men\u2026. Inside the Harris campaign, aides said they believe they will improve on President Joe Biden\u2019s performance with suburban voters in 2020, driven by college-educated voters and women who are turned off by the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. That strategy is clear in the campaign\u2019s schedule in the closing weeks of the campaign, as Harris hosts town halls with disaffected Republicans, like former Rep. Liz Cheney, and rallies focused on abortion rights.\u201d \u2022 So abortion + genocide looks like a winning formula?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadison Square Garden. Just like Hitler!\u201d That argument makes me crazy, and I\u2019m not the only one:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.2547770700637\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.7643312101911\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolutely disgusting\u2026 Kamala is sending a clear message choosing that venue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5sReQVcSLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/5sReQVcSLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1851366430039818707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cTrump: \u2018I\u2019m not a Nazi. I\u2019m the opposite of a Nazi’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/28\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/trump-not-nazi-atlanta-rally-00185967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u2022 If you\u2019re explaining, you\u2019re losing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cTrump 2.0: What Can We Expect from US Foreign Policy after the Elections?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/valdaiclub.com\/a\/highlights\/trump-2-0-what-can-we-expect-from-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valdai Discussion Club<\/a>]. From July. \u201cUkraine is a large investment of American resources, attention, energy, symbolic capital, which the United States will not allow to immediately \u201ccollapse\u201d without exchanging it for something valuable, even more valuable. Can the United States offer Russia anything in this trade? I highly doubt it. Unfortunately, Donald Trump\u2019s first term showed that there was little platform for deep and meaningful negotiations that would produce lasting results. I am particularly convinced of this because there is no guarantee that any agreement with a possible future Trump administration will survive the end of that administration. We\u2019ve seen this in some other major foreign policy situations in the past. \u2026 I doubt that American foreign policy interests in this crisis can imply an unconditional surrender of positions now concentrated not only in Ukraine, but throughout the entire circuit of allies that support Ukraine, supplies it with finances, weapons, intelligence data, trains Ukrainian military personnel, transfers from their own arsenals are sometimes the latest types of valuable weapons.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Hence a \u201cfrozen conflict\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cThe Rumor\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interestingmysteries.com\/p\/the-rumor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Interesting Mysteries<\/a>]. \u2022 The last rumor died, so a new one pops up (well-written, though). Coincidence? You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>NY: Oh dear:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.2057522123894\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5486725663717\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC team made a flyer in Arabic<\/p>\n<p>Not only are the letters not connected (like they should be), they\u2019re also arranged backwards <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6kdGWOrmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/M6kdGWOrmM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NBCtt5CzsK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/NBCtt5CzsK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SaveGazanLives (@UdsiAsli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UdsiAsli\/status\/1851262703135838438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>However, I don\u2019t have time to verify this; \u201cshe would\u201d is not the same as \u201cshe did.\u201d Can readers clarify?<\/p>\n<p>WI: The rules are different in every state\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.4331395348837\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.526162790698\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wisconsin Note: In Wisconsin, ballots must be RECEIVED by 8 pm election day, NOT postmarked. So if you have an absentee ballot sitting on your kitchen counter, it’s a good idea to use a dropbox or take it to your clerk’s office so you are guaranteed to have it in on time! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1AP0lfYgv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/m1AP0lfYgv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ann Jacobs (@AnnJacobsMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnJacobsMKE\/status\/1851364518061879483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"45.954188481675\">\n<p>\u201cQuiet Before the Storm\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/22\/quiet_before_the_storm_151815.html#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201c. As long as the race continues, each side\u2019s anger is reined in by the hope of victory. Once a winner is declared, the loser\u2019s rage will erupt. This political Vesuvius promises to inflame the land as events unfold in these final days to maximize furious disappointment\u2026 Donald Trump\u2019s side is becoming ever more confident of victory\u2026. Still, the polls are very close, and Harris may win. If Trump could insist that he won the 2020 race when all the polls predicted his defeat, just imagine his response if he fails when he appeared to be succeeding. He will not go quietly into the good night. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has settled on a closing argument that focuses on Trump\u2019s alleged unsuitability for office. As the candidate herself describes her opponent as an unstable threat to the Constitution, her surrogates are once again comparing him to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. They honestly believe this rhetoric, which will make it impossible for them to bow to his ascension. We have seen this movie before. The Democrats refused to accept Trump\u2019s victory in 2016; he still won\u2019t concede that President Biden won in 2020. As before, neither side will blame themselves for defeat; they will lash out at their perceived enemies. Each will advance their favored conspiracy theory \u2013 Trump will rail against the press and deep state, Democrats against foreign influence and misinformation \u2013 but both will cast the result as illegitimate.\u201d \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/32z8TjXePSQ?si=4HvbX6qbKLLQwGG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cI give up. Why can\u2019t they?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c2024 Election Doomsday Scenario\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/10\/29\/realclearpolitics_2024_election_doomsday_scenario.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018There are four possible outcomes here,\u2019 Tom Bevan explained. \u201cOne is that Trump\u2019s ahead in the polls, and he wins \u2014 that would be, I think most people would say, okay, I get that. Another outcome would be Harris is ahead in the polls, and she wins. I think there\u2019d be some folks in Trump world who\u2019d say she didn\u2019t really win, whatever. But if she\u2019s ahead in the polls and she wins \u2014 fine. Another option is Harris is ahead in the polls, and Trump wins. Okay, polls undercounted Trump in 2016, and undercounted him again in 2020. I think a lot of people would look at that and say it happened again. If Harris was barely ahead in the polls, they undercounted Trump\u2019s support, and he wins. Okay, I get it.’\u201d But: \u201c\u2018The last scenario is the doomsday scenario, which is Trump\u2019s ahead in the polls, and Harris wins. I think that would induce\u2026 I think that would be a sh*t show situation where you have a lot of Republicans, a vast majority of Trump supporters, who would say there\u2019s no way that happened. There\u2019s no way Trump was ahead in the polls after being undercounted in 2016, and undercounted in 2020; he\u2019s ahead in the polls this time, and she wins? I think that would be a really tough scenario where you would even have potentially, Republican states and legislatures that would just say they don\u2019t accept the results,\u2019 he said. \u2018That could be a real constitutional crisis type moment.’\u201d <\/p>\n<\/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>; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/?v=SC2_N&l=Oakland%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland, wastewater<\/a>); CO (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdphe.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/d79cf93c3938470ca4bcc4823328946b#utility=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); CT (<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ct.gov\/stories\/s\/COVID-19-data\/wa3g-tfvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); DE (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); FL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/5b9d75ba683849928dc1a49c39ab0b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/ga-nwss-wastewater-surveillance-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); HI (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); IA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmmwra.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater reports<\/a>); ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Boise; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/?plantId=1056f05c-0e46-4e3d-b007-c0453ba7dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Central Idaho; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/#:SARS-CoV-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.srhd.org\/topics\/spokane-county-case-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spokane County<\/a>); IL (<a href=\"https:\/\/iwss.uillinois.edu\/wastewater-treatment-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); IN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.in.gov\/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); KS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/4456bae8a38f4b6180e008477382fff9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Lawrence); KY (<a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/envirome\/thecoimmunityproject\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Louisville); LA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh.la.gov\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-wastewater-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); ME (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/mecdc\/infectious-disease\/epi\/airborne\/coronavirus\/data.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); 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:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/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, KF, KidDoc, 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>Look for the Helpers<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p>I should carry extra masks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1142\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers-131x300.png 131w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers-448x1024.png 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Immune Dysregulation<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"6.9824561403509\">\n<p>\u201cTuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tb-who-tuberculosis-covid-c0fd5cc6542e7f9135833366b71546d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. I wonder why? \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10673403\/#:~:text=Some%20studies%20suggest%20that%20tuberculosis,resulting%20in%20increased%20disease%20severity.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tis a mystery<\/a>! And: \u201cTuberculosis is caused by airborne bacteria.\u201d \u2022 So be sure to wash your hands!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employment Situation: \u201cUnited States ADP Employment Change\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/adp-employment-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cPrivate businesses in the US added 233K workers to their payrolls in October 2024, the most since July 2023, following an upwardly revised 159K rise in September and much higher than forecasts of 115K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing, Machinists union hold \u2018productive\u2019 talks in attempt to end strike\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/boeing-machinists-union-hold-productive-talks-in-attempt-to-end-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cThe latest attempt to break the stalemate comes after 64% of members of IAM District 751 voted to reject Boeing\u2019s third contract offer, which would\u2019ve hiked wages by 35% over four years. Pressure is mounting for the plane-maker to find a compromise as workers dig in, intent on reinstating pensions and making up for a decade of minimal pay increases. The IAM\u2019s strike is the first major labor strife at Boeing in 16 years. Hourly workers are pushing for large pay increases and better retirement benefits, driven by resentment over receiving paltry wage increases in the past decade while senior executives were richly rewarded. The strike is taking a toll on Boeing. Instead of generating cash in the fourth quarter, the company now expects to burn through around $4 billion, which would bring total outflows for the year to $14 billion.\u201d \u2022 \u201cResentment.\u201d And the executives were not \u201crichly rewarded.\u201d They executed a controlled flight into terrain while looting the company.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cNAM Tells Boeing Union Leadership to \u2018Head Back to the Table’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/nam-tells-boeing-union-leadership-141023709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manufacturing.net<\/a>]. \u201cNational Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons released the following statement: \u2018The broader impact of this ongoing work stoppage is being seen across the aerospace sector as manufacturers within the supply chain are being forced to furlough employees and shutter operations. That\u2019s why we\u2019re urging union leadership to head back to the table and find a solution to end this prolonged strike and why we thank Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su for her continued engagement.’\u201d \u2022 Solidarity?!<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cHow the revolving door at FAA spins Boeing\u2019s way\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/how-the-revolving-door-at-faa-spins-boeings-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cIn 2022 alone, the 20 highest-paid defense contractors hired 672 former government officials, military officers, members of Congress and senior legislative staff, according to a report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Boeing hired the most by far, 85. Boeing also hired more former government officials to executive positions than any other Pentagon contractor, the report showed\u2026 Political appointees at the agency pass through the revolving door to industry more frequently than civil service employees there, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. The average tenure for a political appointee at the agency is just 2 years and 2 months, while the average tenure of FAA civil servants is over 12 years. He noted that the FAA strives to abide by the restrictions on post-government employment that require cooling-off periods before representing their new employer in regulatory actions involving their former workplace. \u2018We do not agree that there is a revolving door between the FAA and industry,\u2019 Gregor said, noting that FAA follows the laws governing its employees who accept jobs in the aerospace industry. ;The FAA\u2019s response would be laughable if it weren\u2019t so discordant with the facts,\u2019 said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, director of government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, or POGO, a nonprofit government ethics watchdog. \u2018For the FAA to claim that it is not a revolving door to industry is to tell us not to believe our lying eyes; truly Orwellian stuff.’\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 60 Greed (previous close: 60 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 62 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Oct 30 at 1:00:29 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/plants-find-light-using-gaps-between-their-cells-20240131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta<\/a>]. \u201cSince ancient times, plants\u2019 ability to orient their eyeless bodies toward the nearest, brightest source of light \u2014 known today as phototropism \u2014 has fascinated scholars and generated countless scientific and philosophical debates\u2026 Yet a critical mystery has endured. Animals use eyes \u2014 a complex organ of lenses and photoreceptors \u2014 to gain a detailed picture of the world around them, including the direction of light. Plants, biologists have established, possess a powerful suite of molecular tools for measuring illumination. But in the absence of obvious physical sensing organs like lenses, how do plants work out the precise direction from which light is coming? Now, a team of European researchers has hit upon an answer. In a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adh9384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">published in Science<\/a>, they report that a roadside weed \u2014 Arabidopsis, a favorite of plant geneticists \u2014 uses the air spaces between its cells to scatter light, modifying the path of light passing through its tissues. In this way, the air channels create a light gradient that helps seedlings accurately determine where light is coming from. By taking advantage of air channels to scatter light, plants sidestep the need for discrete organs like eyes in favor of a neater trick: the ability in effect to \u2018see\u2019 with their whole bodies.\u201d \u2022 Another premise for a science fiction novel!<\/p>\n<p>Permaculture-adjacent, rather than permaculture proper:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.44\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.544\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a hand-operated laundry machine. It resides in my sauna, next to the wood boiler. Heating the 90 liter (22gal) boiler only takes a bunch of twigs that I collect from my forest. It is insulated, so the water stays warm for two days in the summer and overnight in winter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9vCuzuPV6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/v9vCuzuPV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Self-sufficiency and degrowth. (@stop_fossil_fue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stop_fossil_fue\/status\/1850933442625863966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/movement\/fauvism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fauvism<\/a> seems not to work in rural France, at least for Gaugin:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.4736842105263\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.4210526315789\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kneeling cow, 1888 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artbots?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#artbots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gauguin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#gauguin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9pFFyPlkQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9pFFyPlkQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Gauguin (@artistgauguin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artistgauguin\/status\/1851383771380994374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"class\"\/><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wages of the white working class\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/the-wages-of-the-white-working-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Drum<\/a>]. Handy charts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat It\u2019s Like Being a Billionaire\u2019s Personal Assistant\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EGTrI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Cut<\/a>]. Worth reading in full, because the detail is great. \u201cAnother reason these people get stingy is that there\u2019s some kind of psychological distortion that happens when everyone fawns over you all the time. The VIP\u2019s mentality is, \u201cHey, this person should be paying me, because they get to be around greatness.\u201d They\u2019re used to having people want a piece of them. So they think that the job is such an amazing opportunity that they shouldn\u2019t have to pay the person what they\u2019re actually worth. They live in a bubble and their reality is warped.\u201d And: \u201cYou have to have thick skin. You\u2019re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. The way you word things is so important. Your intonation and speed of delivery \u2014 I mean, it\u2019s an art. You\u2019re working for people who are not used to hearing no.\u201d And: \u201cThe Hollywood publicity machine creates a certain image, and it\u2019s very rare to meet a celebrity who is genuinely an amazing, brilliant, kind, humane person to everyone all the time. Once you\u2019ve been around it enough, those butterflies start to go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secret Father of Modern Computing\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/every.to\/the-crazy-ones\/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Every<\/a>]. \u201cWe often picture tech disruptors as brash, dynamic figures who are keen to be both seen and heard. Yet the personal computing industry was largely sparked by a straight-talking ex-Air Force officer\u2014one more Ron Swanson than Elon Musk. He ignored claims by IBM and others that people didn\u2019t want a computer at home, and risked his whole company on a hunch that they were wrong. His approach to business was different from the \u2018move fast and break things\u2019 model we\u2019ve come to expect from tech entrepreneurs, yet he succeeded beyond all expectations because of it. This is the story of Ed Roberts, the man who created the personal computer, launched the careers of Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and decided\u2014at the height of his success\u2014to walk away.\u201d \u2022 Doesn\u2019t sound like the tech bros we\u2019ve come to know and love.<\/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\/10\/200pm-water-cooler-10-29-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/flower.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/flower.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/flower-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cPlumaria-Naples Island residential garden.\u201d A little undersized, but still pretty!<\/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. Material here is Lambert\u2019s, and does not express the views of the Naked Capitalism site. 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Bird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Common Nightingale, Rio Gil\u00e3o\u2013Ponte de S\u00e3o Domingues, Tavira, Faro, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Come, hoatzin, come, the game is afoot:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9731182795699\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.494623655914\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A bit of a dream achieved. One day in the Lower Amazon and I have ringed a Hoatzin. These are one of the most primitive birds in the world that is considered as being a step away from the archaeopteryx. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GaXSWkhV71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/GaXSWkhV71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 matt prior (@mattthesparrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattthesparrow\/status\/1849977776691970357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#biden\">Biden does call Trump supporters \u201cgarbage\u201d<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#exit\">About exit polling<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing contract talks resume.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Deluge\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/25\/after_the_deluge_1067586.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>]. \u201cBecause of its unexpected and painful destruction, western North Carolina has become another symbol of America\u2019s cultural divide. One side is the politicization of everything, as human suffering was quickly transformed into a partisan cudgel swung by party operatives and media outlets who fed the public versions of events that advanced their favored narratives. On the other side was the heroic story of people and government working together as best they could in cataclysmic circumstances to aid and comfort one another. That second, hopeful story is what I found while reporting in and around Asheville last week. In a hotel with no running water, guests, some of whom had multiple trees fall on their homes, made do. While the scene could resemble a pajama party gone wrong, with people shuffling to the Porto-Sans in the driveway and choosing not to comment on the smell of body odor in the elevator, most folks showed concern for what their fellow travelers were going through. They left food and drink on a table in the lobby, next to a paper plate onto which someone had written \u2018Take what you need.\u2019 They had neither the luxury nor desire to make political hay from their brethren\u2019s misery.\u201d \u2022 Worth reading in full (and somehow our societal response to emergency needs to integrate \u201cTake what you need\u201d with FEMA (which does, after all, scale);<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/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 wp_automatic_readability=\"239.15825507422\">\n<p>Countdown!<\/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=\"rcp\"\/>Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RCP<\/a> Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"968\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25.png 638w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25-624x947.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Tiny margins, but all red. If I were running the Kamala campaign, I\u2019d want to see some blue. Of course, we on the outside might as well be examining the entrails of birds when we try to predict what will happen to the subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars, especially, who will determine the outcome of the election but might as well be quantum foam, but presumably the campaign professionals have better data, and have the situation as under control as it can be <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"exit\"\/>\u201cHow exit polls work and how NBC News uses them on election night\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/exit-polls-how-work-voters-data-demographics-rcna175474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cAn exit poll is a survey of voters taken as they leave (or exit) their voting location. It\u2019s the only national survey of known voters in the country. It allows news organizations, researchers and voters to understand what\u2019s happening in an election as the results flow in\u2026. Since 2003, Edison Research, a firm that specializes in collecting election data, has conducted exit polls on behalf of the National Election Pool. The NEP is a consortium of media networks \u2014 ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC News \u2014 that pools together resources for one collective vote count and exit poll operation. NBC News independently analyzes and reports on the exit poll results\u2026 The NBC News Decision Desk uses some exit poll data to help project election results. However, the exit poll is primarily used as a reporting tool on election night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat time will we get exit polls for the US election?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2024\/10\/30\/what-time-will-we-get-us-election-exit-polls-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a>]. \u201cThe embargo period for exit polls will end at 5pm ET on polling day, after which news organisations are allowed to begin reporting results from individual states. However, at this point they are not permitted to project a winner while voting is still taking place. Exit polls will only be announced in states where the margins are large enough and they will not be used in the battleground states to project whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump have won. Instead, statisticians will use a combination of the exit poll, actual declared votes and other data to forecast a winner. Along with establishing how respondents voted, the exit poll also questions voters on their demographics and what motivated their decision. If one candidate has a significant lead over the other, then the result may be clear within a matter of hours. However, a fine margin of victory will mean delays in how long it will take for experts to declare whether Ms Harris or Trump has come out on top. Previous contests have taken days or even weeks to be called.\u201d \u2022 Exciting!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS election exit polls: Process and timing for results\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/us-election-exit-polls-process-and-timing-1730277524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RBC-Ukraine<\/a>]. \u201cOn Election Day, over 3,000 Edison Research employees will be stationed at polling places across the US, sending data to the central team office. They will work alongside several hundred phone operators to promptly gather and process survey results. In the 2020 presidential election, Edison Research surveyed over 100,000 voters. The company also deployed employees to 200 early voting sites across the country. Before Election Day, approximately 30,000 people who voted by mail were interviewed by phone. In the 2024 election, a similar number of respondents is expected.\u201d \u2022 On the phone interviews: If, as the Harris campaign suggested they do, wives lie to their husbands about how they vote, they\u2019ll be unlikely to disclose that to Edison if they might be overheard. So the Harris campaign has managed to bias the exit polls to Trump, albeit to an unknown degree. Good job!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia\u2019s elections are over. Opposition exit polls show 40% for the ruling party, while government polls report over 51%\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/jam-news.net\/georgia-election-exit-poll-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JAM News<\/a>]. \u201cAccording to an exit poll conducted by Gorbi for the pro-government TV channel Imedi, the results of the parliamentary elections are as follows: Georgian Dream \u2014 56.1%\u2026. According to an exit poll by Edison Research for the TV channel Formula, the vote distribution is as follows: Georgian Dream \u2014 40.9%.\u201d \u2022 Normally, I would think of Edison Research as rather like a dull and boring public utility. Here, however, we find them involved in what looks awfully like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/analysis\/232945.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rose Revolution 2.0<\/a>, complete with heavy NGO involvement, the usual street protests, pronouncements of election theft by Ursula von der Leyen, and no doubt a heavy leavening of spooks. Of course, even if the permission structure created by \u201cTrump is Hitler\u201d <em>does<\/em> allow spook-adjacency to Edison Research here at home, thinking that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/10\/democrat_war_games_could_they_try_for_a_color_revolution_after_a_trump_victory.html\">would actually happen<\/a> is tinfoil hat stuff, right? I certainly hope so!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNostradamus pollster reveals latest 2024 prediction \u2013 and how he\u2019s never had \u2018so much hate\u2019 in an election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/allan-lichtman-trump-harris-nostradamus-pollster-predictions-b2637999.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Independent<\/a>]. \u201cHistorian Allan Lichtman [of \u201cKeys to the White House\u201d fame] has insisted that he stands by his prediction about who will win the 2024 presidential race despite recent polls \u2013 and revealed that he has \u2018never experienced\u2019 so much \u2018hate\u2019 in an election cycle\u2026. \u2018I\u2019ve been getting feedback that is vulgar, violent, threatening, and even beyond that, the safety and security of my family has been compromised.’\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the race isn\u2019t as close as you think: With one week to go, analyst CRAIG KESHISHIAN predicts the polls are missing a hidden voter surge\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14013063\/trump-harris-early-vote-swing-states-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. \u201cAmericans living in Nevada and Arizona have had a front-row seat to the impact of mass illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration. In both of these states, registered Republican voters have cast more early ballots than registered Democrats \u2014 reversing a historic Democratic advantage. Of course, these early ballots do not reveal actual vote numbers, as they are not opened until Election Day. But this changing dynamic can\u2019t be ignored. As of Sunday, Republicans held a 33,500 ballot lead or 5.2 percent of the total early vote. Last week, Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, described the result as \u2018unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle\u2019 and said there is \u2018no good news\u2019 in the figures for Democrats.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Nixon\u2019s \u201csilent majority\u201d gets a do-over?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is in a strong poll position \u2013 does it matter?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-vs-harris-polls\/75880591007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cIn his third race for the presidency, Republican nominee Donald Trump has never been in as good of a poll position as he is now \u2013 but he\u2019ll have to wait at least a week to find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/27\/2024-presidential-race-trump-vs-harris-predictions-take-over-america\/75878643007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">whether it means anything<\/a>. As of Monday, Trump leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris<\/a> by as close a margin as possible \u2013 0.1% \u2013 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Clear Politics average<\/a> of recent polls. He trailed in the same survey by 7.5% four years ago against Joe Biden and 4.6% in 2016, the year he won the presidency against Hillary Clinton. The way Trump and his allies see it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/28\/presidential-election-polls-2024-harris-trump\/75889622007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the closer the polls<\/a> in the popular vote, the better his chances to win enough states to capture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/2016\/11\/08\/trump-clinton-target-social-media-swing-states-final-hours\/93494872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Electoral College and the presidency<\/a> \u2013 and he outperformed the polls in both of his previous races. Democrats say there is reason to doubt that will happen this time around. They said pollsters are compensating for what they call the \u2018hidden Trump voters\u2019 of the previous two elections, and, if anything, they are oversampling Republicans and inflating Trump\u2019s numbers. Republican candidates underperformed the polls in the 2022 congressional elections, Democrats said. And Trump consistently underperformed polls in a string of Republican primaries earlier this year.\u201d \u2022 And the polls are, after all, editorial products. So.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"garbage\"\/>\u201cGarbage.\u201d The video at :40:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"President Biden calls Trump supporters "garbage"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F54hZP_rWiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can see why Kamala\u2019s campaign would want to say <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4960815-biden-slams-trump-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">that Biden \u201cmisspoke,\u201d<\/a> but Biden\u2019s \u201cthe only garbage I see floatin\u2019 out there is his supporters\u201d seems clear to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden sets off election firestorm with \u2018garbage\u2019 comment\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/30\/biden-garbage-trump-supporters-puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cPresident Biden handed ammo to gleeful Republicans Tuesday night when he seemed to refer to former President Trump\u2019s supporters as \u201cgarbage.’\u201d He didn\u2019t \u201cseem.\u201d He did. More: \u201cBiden\u2019s comments are the latest example of why Kamala Harris\u2019 team has been avoiding campaigning with him. Biden is both unpopular and undisciplined, Harris aides told Axios. Harris delivered her \u2018closing argument\u2019 speech Tuesday night in front of the White House but Biden did not appear alongside her despite being in Washington.\u201d \u2022 Truly, Biden is the master of counter-programming (although I\u2019m not clear on whether Biden delivered these remarks <em>during<\/em> Kamala\u2019s speech).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump calls for supporters to \u2018forgive\u2019 Biden in show of unity after president calls supporters \u2018garbage’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-calls-supporters-forgive-biden-show-unity-after-president-calls-supporters-garbage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018Wow. That\u2019s terrible,\u2019 Trump said, invoking Hillary Clinton\u2019s infamous \u2018deplorable\u2019 remarks in the weeks before the 2016 election. \u2018And then she said irredeemable. That didn\u2019t work out.\u2019 The Republican nominee called on his supporters to forgive him during a packed rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. \u2018Garbage, I think, is worse,\u2019 he said. \u2018But he doesn\u2019t know. You have to please forgive him.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/luke\/23-34.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke 23:34<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden Walks Back Remarks About \u2018Garbage\u2019 At Madison Square Garden\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/joe-biden-walks-back-remarks-about-garbage-at-madison-square-garden\/ar-AA1taptK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>]. The headline is deceptive. Biden was clearly tallking about Trump supporters (one of long line of similar Democrat comments, starting with Obama\u2019s \u201cbitter\u201d people who \u201ccling to guns and religion,\u201d and moving on the Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables.\u201d More: \u201cAndrew Bates, a senior deputy press secretary at the White House, clarified [sic] that Biden was referring to the overarching rhetoric at the Manhattan rally as \u201cgarbage,\u201d not the people there to support Trump. He released a transcript that included an apostrophe in the president\u2019s remarks \u2015 \u2018his supporter\u2019s demonization\u2019 \u2015 to note the president was criticizing Hinchcliffe\u2019s words.\u201d \u2022 Nonsense. Comedians aren\u2019t \u201csupporters.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris responds to Biden \u2018garbage\u2019 remark for first time\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-campaign-silent-after-bidens-garbage-gaffe-referring-trump-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cBiden made his remark during a Zoom call on Tuesday with Voto Latino, one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the U.S. Harris, speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force Two, noted that Biden had \u201cclarified his comments.\u2019 \u2018I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote \u2018You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career. I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people, whether they support me or not.\u2019 Harris added that Biden had called her Tuesday night after the event, but she said they did not discuss his \u2018garbage\u2019 comment.\u201d \u2022 Oh? Why? <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>From the Lincoln Project, another ad encouraging wives to lie to their husbands:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Secret\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlsd1wZ9jF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The more I think about this\u2026 Normally, I resist overheated conservative fulminations that Democrats are out to destroy the sanctity of marriage, etc. etc. After all, social relations change through history, fortunately, despite conservative efforts to \u201cconserve\u201d them. However, in this ad, \u201cdestroying the sancity of marriage\u201d is, in fact, the object. The people who wrote the script and paid for the ad intend exactly that. What will be the <em>next<\/em> \u201cnoble lie\u201d? I\u2019m surprised the Trump campaign isn\u2019t all over this, because to me it\u2019s a genuinely extraordinary turn of events. Perhaps I\u2019m naive. Readers?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201cKamala Harris Makes Her Final Pitch for Voters to \u2018Turn the Page\u2019 on Donald Trump\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7138009\/kamala-harris-ellipse-speech-final-campaign-pitch-turn-page-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Time<\/a>]. \u201cIn a forceful, 30-minute speech, Harris asked voters to elect her and \u2018turn the page\u2019 on Trump. \u2018We know what Donald Trump has in mind: more chaos, more division, and policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path,\u2019 she said. Harris compared Trump to a \u2018petty tyrant\u2019 who is \u2018unstable,\u2019 \u2018obsessed with revenge,\u2019 and wants \u2018unchecked power.\u2019 She said he wants back in the Oval Office, ;not to focus on your problems but to focus on his.\u2019 Trump has signaled support for military tribunals for political enemies, promised to purge the federal bureaucracy of workers who don\u2019t agree with him, and said he\u2019d use the military against opponents he calls \u2018the enemy within.\u2019 Trump would come into the Oval Office with an \u2018enemies list,\u2019 Harris said. She\u2019ll show up with a \u2018to do list.’\u201d \u2022 Not that dealing with deplorables and traitors won\u2019t be things to do, of course. The list is a wonderful data structure!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201c\u2018The suburbs \u2014 that\u2019s the whole deal\u2019: How the suburbs became Harris\u2019 clearest path to victory\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/29\/harris-suburbs-votes-00186166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201cKamala Harris is counting on suburban voters to do what they\u2019ve done since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016: reject him. It may be the single most important piece of her electoral math. While Donald Trump has made inroads with Black and Latino men, polls in the late stage of the election show the suburbs could still power her to victory. The latest Wall Street Journal poll found Harris leading among suburban voters by 7 percentage points, while a Reuters\/Ipsos analysis showed the vice president winning suburban households by 6 points. If either of those numbers hold, they would likely be enough to offset Harris\u2019 erosion with Black, Latino and young men\u2026. Inside the Harris campaign, aides said they believe they will improve on President Joe Biden\u2019s performance with suburban voters in 2020, driven by college-educated voters and women who are turned off by the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. That strategy is clear in the campaign\u2019s schedule in the closing weeks of the campaign, as Harris hosts town halls with disaffected Republicans, like former Rep. Liz Cheney, and rallies focused on abortion rights.\u201d \u2022 So abortion + genocide looks like a winning formula?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadison Square Garden. Just like Hitler!\u201d That argument makes me crazy, and I\u2019m not the only one:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.2547770700637\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.7643312101911\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolutely disgusting\u2026 Kamala is sending a clear message choosing that venue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5sReQVcSLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/5sReQVcSLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1851366430039818707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cTrump: \u2018I\u2019m not a Nazi. I\u2019m the opposite of a Nazi’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/28\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/trump-not-nazi-atlanta-rally-00185967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u2022 If you\u2019re explaining, you\u2019re losing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cTrump 2.0: What Can We Expect from US Foreign Policy after the Elections?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/valdaiclub.com\/a\/highlights\/trump-2-0-what-can-we-expect-from-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valdai Discussion Club<\/a>]. From July. \u201cUkraine is a large investment of American resources, attention, energy, symbolic capital, which the United States will not allow to immediately \u201ccollapse\u201d without exchanging it for something valuable, even more valuable. Can the United States offer Russia anything in this trade? I highly doubt it. Unfortunately, Donald Trump\u2019s first term showed that there was little platform for deep and meaningful negotiations that would produce lasting results. I am particularly convinced of this because there is no guarantee that any agreement with a possible future Trump administration will survive the end of that administration. We\u2019ve seen this in some other major foreign policy situations in the past. \u2026 I doubt that American foreign policy interests in this crisis can imply an unconditional surrender of positions now concentrated not only in Ukraine, but throughout the entire circuit of allies that support Ukraine, supplies it with finances, weapons, intelligence data, trains Ukrainian military personnel, transfers from their own arsenals are sometimes the latest types of valuable weapons.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Hence a \u201cfrozen conflict\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cThe Rumor\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interestingmysteries.com\/p\/the-rumor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Interesting Mysteries<\/a>]. \u2022 The last rumor died, so a new one pops up (well-written, though). Coincidence? You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>NY: Oh dear:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.2057522123894\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5486725663717\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC team made a flyer in Arabic<\/p>\n<p>Not only are the letters not connected (like they should be), they\u2019re also arranged backwards <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6kdGWOrmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/M6kdGWOrmM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NBCtt5CzsK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/NBCtt5CzsK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SaveGazanLives (@UdsiAsli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UdsiAsli\/status\/1851262703135838438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>However, I don\u2019t have time to verify this; \u201cshe would\u201d is not the same as \u201cshe did.\u201d Can readers clarify?<\/p>\n<p>WI: The rules are different in every state\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.4331395348837\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.526162790698\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wisconsin Note: In Wisconsin, ballots must be RECEIVED by 8 pm election day, NOT postmarked. So if you have an absentee ballot sitting on your kitchen counter, it’s a good idea to use a dropbox or take it to your clerk’s office so you are guaranteed to have it in on time! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1AP0lfYgv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/m1AP0lfYgv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ann Jacobs (@AnnJacobsMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnJacobsMKE\/status\/1851364518061879483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"45.954188481675\">\n<p>\u201cQuiet Before the Storm\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/22\/quiet_before_the_storm_151815.html#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201c. As long as the race continues, each side\u2019s anger is reined in by the hope of victory. Once a winner is declared, the loser\u2019s rage will erupt. This political Vesuvius promises to inflame the land as events unfold in these final days to maximize furious disappointment\u2026 Donald Trump\u2019s side is becoming ever more confident of victory\u2026. Still, the polls are very close, and Harris may win. If Trump could insist that he won the 2020 race when all the polls predicted his defeat, just imagine his response if he fails when he appeared to be succeeding. He will not go quietly into the good night. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has settled on a closing argument that focuses on Trump\u2019s alleged unsuitability for office. As the candidate herself describes her opponent as an unstable threat to the Constitution, her surrogates are once again comparing him to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. They honestly believe this rhetoric, which will make it impossible for them to bow to his ascension. We have seen this movie before. The Democrats refused to accept Trump\u2019s victory in 2016; he still won\u2019t concede that President Biden won in 2020. As before, neither side will blame themselves for defeat; they will lash out at their perceived enemies. Each will advance their favored conspiracy theory \u2013 Trump will rail against the press and deep state, Democrats against foreign influence and misinformation \u2013 but both will cast the result as illegitimate.\u201d \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/32z8TjXePSQ?si=4HvbX6qbKLLQwGG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cI give up. Why can\u2019t they?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c2024 Election Doomsday Scenario\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/10\/29\/realclearpolitics_2024_election_doomsday_scenario.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018There are four possible outcomes here,\u2019 Tom Bevan explained. \u201cOne is that Trump\u2019s ahead in the polls, and he wins \u2014 that would be, I think most people would say, okay, I get that. Another outcome would be Harris is ahead in the polls, and she wins. I think there\u2019d be some folks in Trump world who\u2019d say she didn\u2019t really win, whatever. But if she\u2019s ahead in the polls and she wins \u2014 fine. Another option is Harris is ahead in the polls, and Trump wins. Okay, polls undercounted Trump in 2016, and undercounted him again in 2020. I think a lot of people would look at that and say it happened again. If Harris was barely ahead in the polls, they undercounted Trump\u2019s support, and he wins. Okay, I get it.’\u201d But: \u201c\u2018The last scenario is the doomsday scenario, which is Trump\u2019s ahead in the polls, and Harris wins. I think that would induce\u2026 I think that would be a sh*t show situation where you have a lot of Republicans, a vast majority of Trump supporters, who would say there\u2019s no way that happened. There\u2019s no way Trump was ahead in the polls after being undercounted in 2016, and undercounted in 2020; he\u2019s ahead in the polls this time, and she wins? I think that would be a really tough scenario where you would even have potentially, Republican states and legislatures that would just say they don\u2019t accept the results,\u2019 he said. \u2018That could be a real constitutional crisis type moment.’\u201d <\/p>\n<\/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>; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/?v=SC2_N&l=Oakland%2C+CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland, wastewater<\/a>); CO (<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.colorado.gov\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/cdphe.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/d79cf93c3938470ca4bcc4823328946b#utility=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); CT (<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ct.gov\/stories\/s\/COVID-19-data\/wa3g-tfvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); DE (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.delaware.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); FL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/5b9d75ba683849928dc1a49c39ab0b1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/dph.georgia.gov\/ga-nwss-wastewater-surveillance-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); HI (<a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); IA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmmwra.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater reports<\/a>); ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Boise; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopublichealth.com\/district-2\/novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.wastewaterscan.org\/?plantId=1056f05c-0e46-4e3d-b007-c0453ba7dc0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Central Idaho; <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.verily.com\/#:SARS-CoV-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.srhd.org\/topics\/spokane-county-case-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spokane County<\/a>); IL (<a href=\"https:\/\/iwss.uillinois.edu\/wastewater-treatment-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); IN (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.in.gov\/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); KS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov\/160\/COVID-19-in-Kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/4456bae8a38f4b6180e008477382fff9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>, Lawrence); KY (<a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/envirome\/thecoimmunityproject\/dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>, Louisville); LA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldh.la.gov\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); MA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-wastewater-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); MD (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); ME (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/dhhs\/mecdc\/infectious-disease\/epi\/airborne\/coronavirus\/data.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dashboard<\/a>); 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:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/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, KF, KidDoc, 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>Look for the Helpers<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p>I should carry extra masks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1142\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers-131x300.png 131w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers-448x1024.png 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Immune Dysregulation<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"6.9824561403509\">\n<p>\u201cTuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tb-who-tuberculosis-covid-c0fd5cc6542e7f9135833366b71546d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. I wonder why? \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10673403\/#:~:text=Some%20studies%20suggest%20that%20tuberculosis,resulting%20in%20increased%20disease%20severity.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tis a mystery<\/a>! And: \u201cTuberculosis is caused by airborne bacteria.\u201d \u2022 So be sure to wash your hands!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employment Situation: \u201cUnited States ADP Employment Change\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/adp-employment-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cPrivate businesses in the US added 233K workers to their payrolls in October 2024, the most since July 2023, following an upwardly revised 159K rise in September and much higher than forecasts of 115K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing, Machinists union hold \u2018productive\u2019 talks in attempt to end strike\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/boeing-machinists-union-hold-productive-talks-in-attempt-to-end-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cThe latest attempt to break the stalemate comes after 64% of members of IAM District 751 voted to reject Boeing\u2019s third contract offer, which would\u2019ve hiked wages by 35% over four years. Pressure is mounting for the plane-maker to find a compromise as workers dig in, intent on reinstating pensions and making up for a decade of minimal pay increases. The IAM\u2019s strike is the first major labor strife at Boeing in 16 years. Hourly workers are pushing for large pay increases and better retirement benefits, driven by resentment over receiving paltry wage increases in the past decade while senior executives were richly rewarded. The strike is taking a toll on Boeing. Instead of generating cash in the fourth quarter, the company now expects to burn through around $4 billion, which would bring total outflows for the year to $14 billion.\u201d \u2022 \u201cResentment.\u201d And the executives were not \u201crichly rewarded.\u201d They executed a controlled flight into terrain while looting the company.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cNAM Tells Boeing Union Leadership to \u2018Head Back to the Table’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/nam-tells-boeing-union-leadership-141023709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manufacturing.net<\/a>]. \u201cNational Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons released the following statement: \u2018The broader impact of this ongoing work stoppage is being seen across the aerospace sector as manufacturers within the supply chain are being forced to furlough employees and shutter operations. That\u2019s why we\u2019re urging union leadership to head back to the table and find a solution to end this prolonged strike and why we thank Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su for her continued engagement.’\u201d \u2022 Solidarity?!<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cHow the revolving door at FAA spins Boeing\u2019s way\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/how-the-revolving-door-at-faa-spins-boeings-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cIn 2022 alone, the 20 highest-paid defense contractors hired 672 former government officials, military officers, members of Congress and senior legislative staff, according to a report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Boeing hired the most by far, 85. Boeing also hired more former government officials to executive positions than any other Pentagon contractor, the report showed\u2026 Political appointees at the agency pass through the revolving door to industry more frequently than civil service employees there, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. The average tenure for a political appointee at the agency is just 2 years and 2 months, while the average tenure of FAA civil servants is over 12 years. He noted that the FAA strives to abide by the restrictions on post-government employment that require cooling-off periods before representing their new employer in regulatory actions involving their former workplace. \u2018We do not agree that there is a revolving door between the FAA and industry,\u2019 Gregor said, noting that FAA follows the laws governing its employees who accept jobs in the aerospace industry. ;The FAA\u2019s response would be laughable if it weren\u2019t so discordant with the facts,\u2019 said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, director of government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, or POGO, a nonprofit government ethics watchdog. \u2018For the FAA to claim that it is not a revolving door to industry is to tell us not to believe our lying eyes; truly Orwellian stuff.’\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 60 Greed (previous close: 60 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 62 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Oct 30 at 1:00:29 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/plants-find-light-using-gaps-between-their-cells-20240131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta<\/a>]. \u201cSince ancient times, plants\u2019 ability to orient their eyeless bodies toward the nearest, brightest source of light \u2014 known today as phototropism \u2014 has fascinated scholars and generated countless scientific and philosophical debates\u2026 Yet a critical mystery has endured. Animals use eyes \u2014 a complex organ of lenses and photoreceptors \u2014 to gain a detailed picture of the world around them, including the direction of light. Plants, biologists have established, possess a powerful suite of molecular tools for measuring illumination. But in the absence of obvious physical sensing organs like lenses, how do plants work out the precise direction from which light is coming? Now, a team of European researchers has hit upon an answer. In a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adh9384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">published in Science<\/a>, they report that a roadside weed \u2014 Arabidopsis, a favorite of plant geneticists \u2014 uses the air spaces between its cells to scatter light, modifying the path of light passing through its tissues. In this way, the air channels create a light gradient that helps seedlings accurately determine where light is coming from. By taking advantage of air channels to scatter light, plants sidestep the need for discrete organs like eyes in favor of a neater trick: the ability in effect to \u2018see\u2019 with their whole bodies.\u201d \u2022 Another premise for a science fiction novel!<\/p>\n<p>Permaculture-adjacent, rather than permaculture proper:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.44\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.544\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a hand-operated laundry machine. It resides in my sauna, next to the wood boiler. Heating the 90 liter (22gal) boiler only takes a bunch of twigs that I collect from my forest. It is insulated, so the water stays warm for two days in the summer and overnight in winter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9vCuzuPV6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/v9vCuzuPV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Self-sufficiency and degrowth. (@stop_fossil_fue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stop_fossil_fue\/status\/1850933442625863966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/movement\/fauvism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fauvism<\/a> seems not to work in rural France, at least for Gaugin:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.4736842105263\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.4210526315789\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kneeling cow, 1888 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artbots?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#artbots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gauguin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#gauguin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9pFFyPlkQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9pFFyPlkQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Gauguin (@artistgauguin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artistgauguin\/status\/1851383771380994374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"class\"\/><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wages of the white working class\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/the-wages-of-the-white-working-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Drum<\/a>]. Handy charts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat It\u2019s Like Being a Billionaire\u2019s Personal Assistant\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EGTrI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Cut<\/a>]. Worth reading in full, because the detail is great. \u201cAnother reason these people get stingy is that there\u2019s some kind of psychological distortion that happens when everyone fawns over you all the time. The VIP\u2019s mentality is, \u201cHey, this person should be paying me, because they get to be around greatness.\u201d They\u2019re used to having people want a piece of them. So they think that the job is such an amazing opportunity that they shouldn\u2019t have to pay the person what they\u2019re actually worth. They live in a bubble and their reality is warped.\u201d And: \u201cYou have to have thick skin. You\u2019re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. The way you word things is so important. Your intonation and speed of delivery \u2014 I mean, it\u2019s an art. You\u2019re working for people who are not used to hearing no.\u201d And: \u201cThe Hollywood publicity machine creates a certain image, and it\u2019s very rare to meet a celebrity who is genuinely an amazing, brilliant, kind, humane person to everyone all the time. Once you\u2019ve been around it enough, those butterflies start to go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secret Father of Modern Computing\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/every.to\/the-crazy-ones\/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Every<\/a>]. \u201cWe often picture tech disruptors as brash, dynamic figures who are keen to be both seen and heard. Yet the personal computing industry was largely sparked by a straight-talking ex-Air Force officer\u2014one more Ron Swanson than Elon Musk. He ignored claims by IBM and others that people didn\u2019t want a computer at home, and risked his whole company on a hunch that they were wrong. His approach to business was different from the \u2018move fast and break things\u2019 model we\u2019ve come to expect from tech entrepreneurs, yet he succeeded beyond all expectations because of it. This is the story of Ed Roberts, the man who created the personal computer, launched the careers of Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and decided\u2014at the height of his success\u2014to walk away.\u201d \u2022 Doesn\u2019t sound like the tech bros we\u2019ve come to know and love.<\/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\/10\/200pm-water-cooler-10-29-2024.html\">here<\/a>. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Common Nightingale, Rio Gil\u00e3o\u2013Ponte de S\u00e3o Domingues, Tavira, Faro, Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Come, hoatzin, come, the game is afoot:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9731182795699\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.494623655914\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A bit of a dream achieved. One day in the Lower Amazon and I have ringed a Hoatzin. These are one of the most primitive birds in the world that is considered as being a step away from the archaeopteryx. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GaXSWkhV71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/GaXSWkhV71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 matt prior (@mattthesparrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattthesparrow\/status\/1849977776691970357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#biden\">Biden does call Trump supporters \u201cgarbage\u201d<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#exit\">About exit polling<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#boeing\">Boeing contract talks resume.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"helper\"\/><strong>Look for the Helpers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Deluge\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/25\/after_the_deluge_1067586.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>]. \u201cBecause of its unexpected and painful destruction, western North Carolina has become another symbol of America\u2019s cultural divide. One side is the politicization of everything, as human suffering was quickly transformed into a partisan cudgel swung by party operatives and media outlets who fed the public versions of events that advanced their favored narratives. On the other side was the heroic story of people and government working together as best they could in cataclysmic circumstances to aid and comfort one another. That second, hopeful story is what I found while reporting in and around Asheville last week. In a hotel with no running water, guests, some of whom had multiple trees fall on their homes, made do. While the scene could resemble a pajama party gone wrong, with people shuffling to the Porto-Sans in the driveway and choosing not to comment on the smell of body odor in the elevator, most folks showed concern for what their fellow travelers were going through. They left food and drink on a table in the lobby, next to a paper plate onto which someone had written \u2018Take what you need.\u2019 They had neither the luxury nor desire to make political hay from their brethren\u2019s misery.\u201d \u2022 Worth reading in full (and somehow our societal response to emergency needs to integrate \u201cTake what you need\u201d with FEMA (which does, after all, scale);<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>My email address is down by the plant; please send examples of there (\u201cHelpers\u201d in the subject line). In our increasingly desperate and fragile neoliberal society, everyday <em>normal<\/em> incidents and stories of \u201cthe communism of everyday life\u201d are what I am looking for (and not, say, the Red Cross in Hawaii, or even the UNWRA in Gaza).<\/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 wp_automatic_readability=\"239.15825507422\">\n<p>Countdown!<\/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=\"rcp\"\/>Friday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RCP<\/a> Poll Averages:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"968\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25.png 638w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/rcp_2024-10-25-624x947.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lambert here: Tiny margins, but all red. If I were running the Kamala campaign, I\u2019d want to see some blue. Of course, we on the outside might as well be examining the entrails of birds when we try to predict what will happen to the subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars, especially, who will determine the outcome of the election but might as well be quantum foam, but presumably the campaign professionals have better data, and have the situation as under control as it can be <sub>MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"exit\"\/>\u201cHow exit polls work and how NBC News uses them on election night\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/exit-polls-how-work-voters-data-demographics-rcna175474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cAn exit poll is a survey of voters taken as they leave (or exit) their voting location. It\u2019s the only national survey of known voters in the country. It allows news organizations, researchers and voters to understand what\u2019s happening in an election as the results flow in\u2026. Since 2003, Edison Research, a firm that specializes in collecting election data, has conducted exit polls on behalf of the National Election Pool. The NEP is a consortium of media networks \u2014 ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC News \u2014 that pools together resources for one collective vote count and exit poll operation. NBC News independently analyzes and reports on the exit poll results\u2026 The NBC News Decision Desk uses some exit poll data to help project election results. However, the exit poll is primarily used as a reporting tool on election night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat time will we get exit polls for the US election?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/politics\/2024\/10\/30\/what-time-will-we-get-us-election-exit-polls-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a>]. \u201cThe embargo period for exit polls will end at 5pm ET on polling day, after which news organisations are allowed to begin reporting results from individual states. However, at this point they are not permitted to project a winner while voting is still taking place. Exit polls will only be announced in states where the margins are large enough and they will not be used in the battleground states to project whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump have won. Instead, statisticians will use a combination of the exit poll, actual declared votes and other data to forecast a winner. Along with establishing how respondents voted, the exit poll also questions voters on their demographics and what motivated their decision. If one candidate has a significant lead over the other, then the result may be clear within a matter of hours. However, a fine margin of victory will mean delays in how long it will take for experts to declare whether Ms Harris or Trump has come out on top. Previous contests have taken days or even weeks to be called.\u201d \u2022 Exciting!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS election exit polls: Process and timing for results\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/us-election-exit-polls-process-and-timing-1730277524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RBC-Ukraine<\/a>]. \u201cOn Election Day, over 3,000 Edison Research employees will be stationed at polling places across the US, sending data to the central team office. They will work alongside several hundred phone operators to promptly gather and process survey results. In the 2020 presidential election, Edison Research surveyed over 100,000 voters. The company also deployed employees to 200 early voting sites across the country. Before Election Day, approximately 30,000 people who voted by mail were interviewed by phone. In the 2024 election, a similar number of respondents is expected.\u201d \u2022 On the phone interviews: If, as the Harris campaign suggested they do, wives lie to their husbands about how they vote, they\u2019ll be unlikely to disclose that to Edison if they might be overheard. So the Harris campaign has managed to bias the exit polls to Trump, albeit to an unknown degree. Good job!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorgia\u2019s elections are over. Opposition exit polls show 40% for the ruling party, while government polls report over 51%\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/jam-news.net\/georgia-election-exit-poll-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JAM News<\/a>]. \u201cAccording to an exit poll conducted by Gorbi for the pro-government TV channel Imedi, the results of the parliamentary elections are as follows: Georgian Dream \u2014 56.1%\u2026. According to an exit poll by Edison Research for the TV channel Formula, the vote distribution is as follows: Georgian Dream \u2014 40.9%.\u201d \u2022 Normally, I would think of Edison Research as rather like a dull and boring public utility. Here, however, we find them involved in what looks awfully like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/analysis\/232945.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rose Revolution 2.0<\/a>, complete with heavy NGO involvement, the usual street protests, pronouncements of election theft by Ursula von der Leyen, and no doubt a heavy leavening of spooks. Of course, even if the permission structure created by \u201cTrump is Hitler\u201d <em>does<\/em> allow spook-adjacency to Edison Research here at home, thinking that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2024\/10\/democrat_war_games_could_they_try_for_a_color_revolution_after_a_trump_victory.html\">would actually happen<\/a> is tinfoil hat stuff, right? I certainly hope so!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNostradamus pollster reveals latest 2024 prediction \u2013 and how he\u2019s never had \u2018so much hate\u2019 in an election\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/allan-lichtman-trump-harris-nostradamus-pollster-predictions-b2637999.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Independent<\/a>]. \u201cHistorian Allan Lichtman [of \u201cKeys to the White House\u201d fame] has insisted that he stands by his prediction about who will win the 2024 presidential race despite recent polls \u2013 and revealed that he has \u2018never experienced\u2019 so much \u2018hate\u2019 in an election cycle\u2026. \u2018I\u2019ve been getting feedback that is vulgar, violent, threatening, and even beyond that, the safety and security of my family has been compromised.’\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the race isn\u2019t as close as you think: With one week to go, analyst CRAIG KESHISHIAN predicts the polls are missing a hidden voter surge\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14013063\/trump-harris-early-vote-swing-states-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. \u201cAmericans living in Nevada and Arizona have had a front-row seat to the impact of mass illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration. In both of these states, registered Republican voters have cast more early ballots than registered Democrats \u2014 reversing a historic Democratic advantage. Of course, these early ballots do not reveal actual vote numbers, as they are not opened until Election Day. But this changing dynamic can\u2019t be ignored. As of Sunday, Republicans held a 33,500 ballot lead or 5.2 percent of the total early vote. Last week, Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, described the result as \u2018unheard of at this point in any other presidential cycle\u2019 and said there is \u2018no good news\u2019 in the figures for Democrats.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Nixon\u2019s \u201csilent majority\u201d gets a do-over?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is in a strong poll position \u2013 does it matter?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-vs-harris-polls\/75880591007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA Today<\/a>]. \u201cIn his third race for the presidency, Republican nominee Donald Trump has never been in as good of a poll position as he is now \u2013 but he\u2019ll have to wait at least a week to find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/27\/2024-presidential-race-trump-vs-harris-predictions-take-over-america\/75878643007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">whether it means anything<\/a>. As of Monday, Trump leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris<\/a> by as close a margin as possible \u2013 0.1% \u2013 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Clear Politics average<\/a> of recent polls. He trailed in the same survey by 7.5% four years ago against Joe Biden and 4.6% in 2016, the year he won the presidency against Hillary Clinton. The way Trump and his allies see it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/28\/presidential-election-polls-2024-harris-trump\/75889622007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the closer the polls<\/a> in the popular vote, the better his chances to win enough states to capture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/2016\/11\/08\/trump-clinton-target-social-media-swing-states-final-hours\/93494872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Electoral College and the presidency<\/a> \u2013 and he outperformed the polls in both of his previous races. Democrats say there is reason to doubt that will happen this time around. They said pollsters are compensating for what they call the \u2018hidden Trump voters\u2019 of the previous two elections, and, if anything, they are oversampling Republicans and inflating Trump\u2019s numbers. Republican candidates underperformed the polls in the 2022 congressional elections, Democrats said. And Trump consistently underperformed polls in a string of Republican primaries earlier this year.\u201d \u2022 And the polls are, after all, editorial products. So.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"garbage\"\/>\u201cGarbage.\u201d The video at :40:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"President Biden calls Trump supporters "garbage"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F54hZP_rWiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I can see why Kamala\u2019s campaign would want to say <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4960815-biden-slams-trump-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">that Biden \u201cmisspoke,\u201d<\/a> but Biden\u2019s \u201cthe only garbage I see floatin\u2019 out there is his supporters\u201d seems clear to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden sets off election firestorm with \u2018garbage\u2019 comment\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/30\/biden-garbage-trump-supporters-puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cPresident Biden handed ammo to gleeful Republicans Tuesday night when he seemed to refer to former President Trump\u2019s supporters as \u201cgarbage.’\u201d He didn\u2019t \u201cseem.\u201d He did. More: \u201cBiden\u2019s comments are the latest example of why Kamala Harris\u2019 team has been avoiding campaigning with him. Biden is both unpopular and undisciplined, Harris aides told Axios. Harris delivered her \u2018closing argument\u2019 speech Tuesday night in front of the White House but Biden did not appear alongside her despite being in Washington.\u201d \u2022 Truly, Biden is the master of counter-programming (although I\u2019m not clear on whether Biden delivered these remarks <em>during<\/em> Kamala\u2019s speech).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump calls for supporters to \u2018forgive\u2019 Biden in show of unity after president calls supporters \u2018garbage’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-calls-supporters-forgive-biden-show-unity-after-president-calls-supporters-garbage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018Wow. That\u2019s terrible,\u2019 Trump said, invoking Hillary Clinton\u2019s infamous \u2018deplorable\u2019 remarks in the weeks before the 2016 election. \u2018And then she said irredeemable. That didn\u2019t work out.\u2019 The Republican nominee called on his supporters to forgive him during a packed rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. \u2018Garbage, I think, is worse,\u2019 he said. \u2018But he doesn\u2019t know. You have to please forgive him.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/luke\/23-34.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke 23:34<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden Walks Back Remarks About \u2018Garbage\u2019 At Madison Square Garden\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/joe-biden-walks-back-remarks-about-garbage-at-madison-square-garden\/ar-AA1taptK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>]. The headline is deceptive. Biden was clearly tallking about Trump supporters (one of long line of similar Democrat comments, starting with Obama\u2019s \u201cbitter\u201d people who \u201ccling to guns and religion,\u201d and moving on the Clinton\u2019s \u201cdeplorables.\u201d More: \u201cAndrew Bates, a senior deputy press secretary at the White House, clarified [sic] that Biden was referring to the overarching rhetoric at the Manhattan rally as \u201cgarbage,\u201d not the people there to support Trump. He released a transcript that included an apostrophe in the president\u2019s remarks \u2015 \u2018his supporter\u2019s demonization\u2019 \u2015 to note the president was criticizing Hinchcliffe\u2019s words.\u201d \u2022 Nonsense. Comedians aren\u2019t \u201csupporters.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris responds to Biden \u2018garbage\u2019 remark for first time\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-campaign-silent-after-bidens-garbage-gaffe-referring-trump-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FOX<\/a>]. \u201cBiden made his remark during a Zoom call on Tuesday with Voto Latino, one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the U.S. Harris, speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force Two, noted that Biden had \u201cclarified his comments.\u2019 \u2018I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote \u2018You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career. I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people, whether they support me or not.\u2019 Harris added that Biden had called her Tuesday night after the event, but she said they did not discuss his \u2018garbage\u2019 comment.\u201d \u2022 Oh? Why? <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>From the Lincoln Project, another ad encouraging wives to lie to their husbands:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Secret\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jlsd1wZ9jF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The more I think about this\u2026 Normally, I resist overheated conservative fulminations that Democrats are out to destroy the sanctity of marriage, etc. etc. After all, social relations change through history, fortunately, despite conservative efforts to \u201cconserve\u201d them. However, in this ad, \u201cdestroying the sancity of marriage\u201d is, in fact, the object. The people who wrote the script and paid for the ad intend exactly that. What will be the <em>next<\/em> \u201cnoble lie\u201d? I\u2019m surprised the Trump campaign isn\u2019t all over this, because to me it\u2019s a genuinely extraordinary turn of events. Perhaps I\u2019m naive. Readers?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201cKamala Harris Makes Her Final Pitch for Voters to \u2018Turn the Page\u2019 on Donald Trump\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7138009\/kamala-harris-ellipse-speech-final-campaign-pitch-turn-page-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Time<\/a>]. \u201cIn a forceful, 30-minute speech, Harris asked voters to elect her and \u2018turn the page\u2019 on Trump. \u2018We know what Donald Trump has in mind: more chaos, more division, and policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else. I offer a different path,\u2019 she said. Harris compared Trump to a \u2018petty tyrant\u2019 who is \u2018unstable,\u2019 \u2018obsessed with revenge,\u2019 and wants \u2018unchecked power.\u2019 She said he wants back in the Oval Office, ;not to focus on your problems but to focus on his.\u2019 Trump has signaled support for military tribunals for political enemies, promised to purge the federal bureaucracy of workers who don\u2019t agree with him, and said he\u2019d use the military against opponents he calls \u2018the enemy within.\u2019 Trump would come into the Oval Office with an \u2018enemies list,\u2019 Harris said. She\u2019ll show up with a \u2018to do list.’\u201d \u2022 Not that dealing with deplorables and traitors won\u2019t be things to do, of course. The list is a wonderful data structure!<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Kamala (D): \u201c\u2018The suburbs \u2014 that\u2019s the whole deal\u2019: How the suburbs became Harris\u2019 clearest path to victory\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/29\/harris-suburbs-votes-00186166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u201cKamala Harris is counting on suburban voters to do what they\u2019ve done since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016: reject him. It may be the single most important piece of her electoral math. While Donald Trump has made inroads with Black and Latino men, polls in the late stage of the election show the suburbs could still power her to victory. The latest Wall Street Journal poll found Harris leading among suburban voters by 7 percentage points, while a Reuters\/Ipsos analysis showed the vice president winning suburban households by 6 points. If either of those numbers hold, they would likely be enough to offset Harris\u2019 erosion with Black, Latino and young men\u2026. Inside the Harris campaign, aides said they believe they will improve on President Joe Biden\u2019s performance with suburban voters in 2020, driven by college-educated voters and women who are turned off by the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. That strategy is clear in the campaign\u2019s schedule in the closing weeks of the campaign, as Harris hosts town halls with disaffected Republicans, like former Rep. Liz Cheney, and rallies focused on abortion rights.\u201d \u2022 So abortion + genocide looks like a winning formula?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMadison Square Garden. Just like Hitler!\u201d That argument makes me crazy, and I\u2019m not the only one:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.2547770700637\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.7643312101911\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolutely disgusting\u2026 Kamala is sending a clear message choosing that venue. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5sReQVcSLD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/5sReQVcSLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geiger_Capital\/status\/1851366430039818707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cTrump: \u2018I\u2019m not a Nazi. I\u2019m the opposite of a Nazi’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/28\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/trump-not-nazi-atlanta-rally-00185967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u2022 If you\u2019re explaining, you\u2019re losing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cTrump 2.0: What Can We Expect from US Foreign Policy after the Elections?\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/valdaiclub.com\/a\/highlights\/trump-2-0-what-can-we-expect-from-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Valdai Discussion Club<\/a>]. From July. \u201cUkraine is a large investment of American resources, attention, energy, symbolic capital, which the United States will not allow to immediately \u201ccollapse\u201d without exchanging it for something valuable, even more valuable. Can the United States offer Russia anything in this trade? I highly doubt it. Unfortunately, Donald Trump\u2019s first term showed that there was little platform for deep and meaningful negotiations that would produce lasting results. I am particularly convinced of this because there is no guarantee that any agreement with a possible future Trump administration will survive the end of that administration. We\u2019ve seen this in some other major foreign policy situations in the past. \u2026 I doubt that American foreign policy interests in this crisis can imply an unconditional surrender of positions now concentrated not only in Ukraine, but throughout the entire circuit of allies that support Ukraine, supplies it with finances, weapons, intelligence data, trains Ukrainian military personnel, transfers from their own arsenals are sometimes the latest types of valuable weapons.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Hence a \u201cfrozen conflict\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Trump (R): \u201cThe Rumor\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interestingmysteries.com\/p\/the-rumor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Interesting Mysteries<\/a>]. \u2022 The last rumor died, so a new one pops up (well-written, though). Coincidence? You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>NY: Oh dear:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.2057522123894\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5486725663717\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC team made a flyer in Arabic<\/p>\n<p>Not only are the letters not connected (like they should be), they\u2019re also arranged backwards <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6kdGWOrmM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/M6kdGWOrmM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NBCtt5CzsK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/NBCtt5CzsK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SaveGazanLives (@UdsiAsli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UdsiAsli\/status\/1851262703135838438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>However, I don\u2019t have time to verify this; \u201cshe would\u201d is not the same as \u201cshe did.\u201d Can readers clarify?<\/p>\n<p>WI: The rules are different in every state\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.4331395348837\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.526162790698\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wisconsin Note: In Wisconsin, ballots must be RECEIVED by 8 pm election day, NOT postmarked. So if you have an absentee ballot sitting on your kitchen counter, it’s a good idea to use a dropbox or take it to your clerk’s office so you are guaranteed to have it in on time! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1AP0lfYgv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/m1AP0lfYgv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ann Jacobs (@AnnJacobsMKE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnJacobsMKE\/status\/1851364518061879483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"45.954188481675\">\n<p>\u201cQuiet Before the Storm\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/22\/quiet_before_the_storm_151815.html#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201c. As long as the race continues, each side\u2019s anger is reined in by the hope of victory. Once a winner is declared, the loser\u2019s rage will erupt. This political Vesuvius promises to inflame the land as events unfold in these final days to maximize furious disappointment\u2026 Donald Trump\u2019s side is becoming ever more confident of victory\u2026. Still, the polls are very close, and Harris may win. If Trump could insist that he won the 2020 race when all the polls predicted his defeat, just imagine his response if he fails when he appeared to be succeeding. He will not go quietly into the good night. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has settled on a closing argument that focuses on Trump\u2019s alleged unsuitability for office. As the candidate herself describes her opponent as an unstable threat to the Constitution, her surrogates are once again comparing him to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. They honestly believe this rhetoric, which will make it impossible for them to bow to his ascension. We have seen this movie before. The Democrats refused to accept Trump\u2019s victory in 2016; he still won\u2019t concede that President Biden won in 2020. As before, neither side will blame themselves for defeat; they will lash out at their perceived enemies. Each will advance their favored conspiracy theory \u2013 Trump will rail against the press and deep state, Democrats against foreign influence and misinformation \u2013 but both will cast the result as illegitimate.\u201d \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/32z8TjXePSQ?si=4HvbX6qbKLLQwGG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cI give up. Why can\u2019t they?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c2024 Election Doomsday Scenario\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/10\/29\/realclearpolitics_2024_election_doomsday_scenario.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>]. \u201c\u2018There are four possible outcomes here,\u2019 Tom Bevan explained. \u201cOne is that Trump\u2019s ahead in the polls, and he wins \u2014 that would be, I think most people would say, okay, I get that. Another outcome would be Harris is ahead in the polls, and she wins. I think there\u2019d be some folks in Trump world who\u2019d say she didn\u2019t really win, whatever. But if she\u2019s ahead in the polls and she wins \u2014 fine. Another option is Harris is ahead in the polls, and Trump wins. Okay, polls undercounted Trump in 2016, and undercounted him again in 2020. I think a lot of people would look at that and say it happened again. If Harris was barely ahead in the polls, they undercounted Trump\u2019s support, and he wins. Okay, I get it.’\u201d But: \u201c\u2018The last scenario is the doomsday scenario, which is Trump\u2019s ahead in the polls, and Harris wins. I think that would induce\u2026 I think that would be a sh*t show situation where you have a lot of Republicans, a vast majority of Trump supporters, who would say there\u2019s no way that happened. There\u2019s no way Trump was ahead in the polls after being undercounted in 2016, and undercounted in 2020; he\u2019s ahead in the polls this time, and she wins? I think that would be a really tough scenario where you would even have potentially, Republican states and legislatures that would just say they don\u2019t accept the results,\u2019 he said. \u2018That could be a real constitutional crisis type moment.’\u201d <\/p>\n<\/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. 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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>; 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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:\/\/avrpublic.dhhs.utah.gov\/uwss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/a>); VA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/coronavirus\/sars-cov-2-in-wastewater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wastewater<\/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, KF, KidDoc, 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>Look for the Helpers<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"5\">\n<p>I should carry extra masks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1142\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers-131x300.png 131w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/covid-mask-helpers-448x1024.png 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Immune Dysregulation<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"6.9824561403509\">\n<p>\u201cTuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tb-who-tuberculosis-covid-c0fd5cc6542e7f9135833366b71546d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. I wonder why? \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10673403\/#:~:text=Some%20studies%20suggest%20that%20tuberculosis,resulting%20in%20increased%20disease%20severity.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tis a mystery<\/a>! And: \u201cTuberculosis is caused by airborne bacteria.\u201d \u2022 So be sure to wash your hands!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employment Situation: \u201cUnited States ADP Employment Change\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/adp-employment-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trading Economics<\/a>]. \u201cPrivate businesses in the US added 233K workers to their payrolls in October 2024, the most since July 2023, following an upwardly revised 159K rise in September and much higher than forecasts of 115K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing, Machinists union hold \u2018productive\u2019 talks in attempt to end strike\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/boeing-machinists-union-hold-productive-talks-in-attempt-to-end-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cThe latest attempt to break the stalemate comes after 64% of members of IAM District 751 voted to reject Boeing\u2019s third contract offer, which would\u2019ve hiked wages by 35% over four years. Pressure is mounting for the plane-maker to find a compromise as workers dig in, intent on reinstating pensions and making up for a decade of minimal pay increases. The IAM\u2019s strike is the first major labor strife at Boeing in 16 years. Hourly workers are pushing for large pay increases and better retirement benefits, driven by resentment over receiving paltry wage increases in the past decade while senior executives were richly rewarded. The strike is taking a toll on Boeing. Instead of generating cash in the fourth quarter, the company now expects to burn through around $4 billion, which would bring total outflows for the year to $14 billion.\u201d \u2022 \u201cResentment.\u201d And the executives were not \u201crichly rewarded.\u201d They executed a controlled flight into terrain while looting the company.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cNAM Tells Boeing Union Leadership to \u2018Head Back to the Table’\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/nam-tells-boeing-union-leadership-141023709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manufacturing.net<\/a>]. \u201cNational Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons released the following statement: \u2018The broader impact of this ongoing work stoppage is being seen across the aerospace sector as manufacturers within the supply chain are being forced to furlough employees and shutter operations. That\u2019s why we\u2019re urging union leadership to head back to the table and find a solution to end this prolonged strike and why we thank Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su for her continued engagement.’\u201d \u2022 Solidarity?!<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cHow the revolving door at FAA spins Boeing\u2019s way\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/how-the-revolving-door-at-faa-spins-boeings-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Times<\/a>]. \u201cIn 2022 alone, the 20 highest-paid defense contractors hired 672 former government officials, military officers, members of Congress and senior legislative staff, according to a report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Boeing hired the most by far, 85. Boeing also hired more former government officials to executive positions than any other Pentagon contractor, the report showed\u2026 Political appointees at the agency pass through the revolving door to industry more frequently than civil service employees there, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said. The average tenure for a political appointee at the agency is just 2 years and 2 months, while the average tenure of FAA civil servants is over 12 years. He noted that the FAA strives to abide by the restrictions on post-government employment that require cooling-off periods before representing their new employer in regulatory actions involving their former workplace. \u2018We do not agree that there is a revolving door between the FAA and industry,\u2019 Gregor said, noting that FAA follows the laws governing its employees who accept jobs in the aerospace industry. ;The FAA\u2019s response would be laughable if it weren\u2019t so discordant with the facts,\u2019 said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, director of government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, or POGO, a nonprofit government ethics watchdog. \u2018For the FAA to claim that it is not a revolving door to industry is to tell us not to believe our lying eyes; truly Orwellian stuff.’\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 60 Greed (previous close: 60 Greed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 62 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Oct 30 at 1:00:29 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/plants-find-light-using-gaps-between-their-cells-20240131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Quanta<\/a>]. \u201cSince ancient times, plants\u2019 ability to orient their eyeless bodies toward the nearest, brightest source of light \u2014 known today as phototropism \u2014 has fascinated scholars and generated countless scientific and philosophical debates\u2026 Yet a critical mystery has endured. Animals use eyes \u2014 a complex organ of lenses and photoreceptors \u2014 to gain a detailed picture of the world around them, including the direction of light. Plants, biologists have established, possess a powerful suite of molecular tools for measuring illumination. But in the absence of obvious physical sensing organs like lenses, how do plants work out the precise direction from which light is coming? Now, a team of European researchers has hit upon an answer. In a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adh9384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">published in Science<\/a>, they report that a roadside weed \u2014 Arabidopsis, a favorite of plant geneticists \u2014 uses the air spaces between its cells to scatter light, modifying the path of light passing through its tissues. In this way, the air channels create a light gradient that helps seedlings accurately determine where light is coming from. By taking advantage of air channels to scatter light, plants sidestep the need for discrete organs like eyes in favor of a neater trick: the ability in effect to \u2018see\u2019 with their whole bodies.\u201d \u2022 Another premise for a science fiction novel!<\/p>\n<p>Permaculture-adjacent, rather than permaculture proper:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"4.44\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"11.544\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a hand-operated laundry machine. It resides in my sauna, next to the wood boiler. Heating the 90 liter (22gal) boiler only takes a bunch of twigs that I collect from my forest. It is insulated, so the water stays warm for two days in the summer and overnight in winter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9vCuzuPV6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/v9vCuzuPV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Self-sufficiency and degrowth. (@stop_fossil_fue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stop_fossil_fue\/status\/1850933442625863966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/movement\/fauvism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fauvism<\/a> seems not to work in rural France, at least for Gaugin:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.4736842105263\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.4210526315789\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kneeling cow, 1888 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artbots?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#artbots<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gauguin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#gauguin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9pFFyPlkQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9pFFyPlkQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Gauguin (@artistgauguin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artistgauguin\/status\/1851383771380994374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"class\"\/><strong>Class Warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wages of the white working class\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/the-wages-of-the-white-working-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Drum<\/a>]. Handy charts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/wages_white-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat It\u2019s Like Being a Billionaire\u2019s Personal Assistant\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/EGTrI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Cut<\/a>]. Worth reading in full, because the detail is great. \u201cAnother reason these people get stingy is that there\u2019s some kind of psychological distortion that happens when everyone fawns over you all the time. The VIP\u2019s mentality is, \u201cHey, this person should be paying me, because they get to be around greatness.\u201d They\u2019re used to having people want a piece of them. So they think that the job is such an amazing opportunity that they shouldn\u2019t have to pay the person what they\u2019re actually worth. They live in a bubble and their reality is warped.\u201d And: \u201cYou have to have thick skin. You\u2019re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. The way you word things is so important. Your intonation and speed of delivery \u2014 I mean, it\u2019s an art. You\u2019re working for people who are not used to hearing no.\u201d And: \u201cThe Hollywood publicity machine creates a certain image, and it\u2019s very rare to meet a celebrity who is genuinely an amazing, brilliant, kind, humane person to everyone all the time. Once you\u2019ve been around it enough, those butterflies start to go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secret Father of Modern Computing\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/every.to\/the-crazy-ones\/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Every<\/a>]. \u201cWe often picture tech disruptors as brash, dynamic figures who are keen to be both seen and heard. Yet the personal computing industry was largely sparked by a straight-talking ex-Air Force officer\u2014one more Ron Swanson than Elon Musk. He ignored claims by IBM and others that people didn\u2019t want a computer at home, and risked his whole company on a hunch that they were wrong. His approach to business was different from the \u2018move fast and break things\u2019 model we\u2019ve come to expect from tech entrepreneurs, yet he succeeded beyond all expectations because of it. This is the story of Ed Roberts, the man who created the personal computer, launched the careers of Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and decided\u2014at the height of his success\u2014to walk away.\u201d \u2022 Doesn\u2019t sound like the tech bros we\u2019ve come to know and love.<\/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\/10\/200pm-water-cooler-10-29-2024.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/flower.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/flower.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/flower-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cPlumaria-Naples Island residential garden.\u201d A little undersized, but still pretty!<\/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. Material here is Lambert\u2019s, and does not express the views of the Naked Capitalism site. 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. More tangibly, a constant trickle of donations helps me with expenses, and I factor in that trickle when setting fundraising goals:<\/p>\n<p>Here is the screen that will appear, which I have helpfully annotated:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/contribution.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/contribution.png 606w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/contribution-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you hate PayPal, you can email me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, and I will give you directions on how to send a check. 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