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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nPatient readers, I got a late start today. I\u2019ll make it up tomorrow, I swear! \u2013lambert<\/p>\nBird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brown Thrasher, Long Branch SP and Lake, Macon, Missouri, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#trump\">Trump transition<\/a>: Gabbard, Hegseth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#democrats\">\u201cThat\u2019s quite an act<\/a>. What do you call it?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#zeitgeist\">LA fires<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wired\">Tintin<\/a> now in the public domain.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Capitol Seizure<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"9.6404494382022\">\n<p>\u201cVance says Jan. 6 participants who committed violence \u2018obviously\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be pardoned\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vance-trump-pardons-capitol-riot-31308a54ebac4ef6783662f595262dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u201cVance insisted in an interview on \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 that the pardon question is \u2018very simple,\u2019 saying those who \u2018protested peacefully\u2019 should be pardoned and \u2018if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn\u2019t be pardoned.\u2019 He later said there was a \u2018bit of a gray area\u2019 in some cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"trump\"\/>Trump Transition<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"60.182424480188\">\n<p>\u201cDemocrats want to slow Gabbard confirmation path\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5079910-senate-democrats-delay-gabbard-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cDemocrats are insisting on delaying Gabbard\u2019s confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence, saying they still don\u2019t have the full slate of background checks, ethics disclosures and paperwork on a candidate whose overall qualifications have sparked their concern. \u2018We\u2019re going to insist on these documents before we go forward. I mean, that\u2019s just kind of a nonnegotiable. You can\u2019t do \u2018advice and consent\u2019 without it,\u2019 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said. \u2018Particularly in the national security context, it\u2019s critical that you have these documents. Maybe it\u2019s not flashy and it\u2019s not viral, but it happens to be how I feel.\u2019 The pushback appears to have successfully delayed a hearing that would normally take place ahead of Trump being sworn into office Jan. 20\u2026. \u2018This is an extraordinarily important job,\u2019 [ Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)] continued. \u2018A lot of this [is] also about protecting the independence of the intelligence community and making sure we continue to have the ability to share classified information with our allies.’\u201d \u2022 Lol, the \u201cindependence of the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHegseth\u2019s views on women in combat, infidelity and more \u2014 in his own words\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-background-defense-secretary-confirmation-hearing-e160e10c86385a8beff110d9190fb34e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u201cIf confirmed, [Hegseth] has said there will be no more \u2018social justice, politically correct approaches to how we fight and conduct wars.\u2019 Instead, he said, \u2018this is about lethality, meritocracy, readiness.’\u201d \u2022 Well\u2026 OTOH, we don\u2019t want to turn into the IDF, now do we?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s Cabinet disruptors soften key views as hearings loom\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/12\/trump-confirmation-hearings-hegseth-gabbard-rfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThree of President-elect Trump\u2019s most provocative Cabinet picks have reversed key positions ahead of next week\u2019s confirmation hearings, softening their edges for an establishment they\u2019ve been charged with tearing down. For as powerful as MAGA has become, the Senate\u2019s confirmation process remains a significant obstacle \u2014 at least nominally \u2014 to injecting fringe beliefs directly into the heart of government\u2026. Gabbard told <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/senate\/gabbard-changes-stance-on-section-702\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Punchbowl News<\/a> on Friday that she now supports the Section 702 surveillance program thanks to updated whistleblower and civil liberty protections\u2026. RFK Jr. told reporters on Capitol Hill last month: \u2018I\u2019m all for the polio vaccine’\u201d Now do MMR. More: \u201cHegseth, after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/09\/joni-ernst-hegseth-senate-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">early clash<\/a> with Army veteran Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/12\/11\/pete-hegseth-women-combat-reversal\/76925867007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said he supports<\/a> \u2018all women serving in our military today.’\u201d And: \u201cTheir maximalist impulses may have been tamed, but that doesn\u2019t mean Gabbard, Kennedy and Hegseth won\u2019t be able to radically transform their agencies in the way MAGA envisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBessent to divest from assets on road to leading Treasury\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5081850-bessent-to-divest-from-assets-on-road-to-leading-treasury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Trump\u2019s Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent has plans to divest from funds and other investments as he prepares to take over as the country\u2019s top economic official. In an agreement released Saturday by the Office of Government Ethics ahead of Bessent\u2019s confirmation hearing on Thursday, he outlined his plans. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, also shared his financial disclosures ahead of the Senate hearing later this week. Top government officials typically are required to disclose their holdings and divest from ones that could cause a conflict of interest. \u2018In the event that an actual or potential conflict of interest arises during my appointment, I will consult with an agency ethics official and take the measures necessary to resolve the conflict, such as recusal from the particular matter or divestiture of an asset,\u2019 Bessent wrote. Bessent said he will resign from his position with Key Square Group upon being confirmed by the Senate. He said he would also divest his partnership share in the company \u2018as soon as practicable.\u2019 Bessent said he would resign from his positions at other companies and foundations as well.\u201d \u2022 Everything going very smoothly with Bessent.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Nice work, Susie:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.2201492537313\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.3432835820896\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vivek has only posted twice on X since the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AFpost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOikWxjJ5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/VOikWxjJ5Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AF Post (@AFpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/1878271490719613317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump posts wildly realistic lip-read of bromance with Obama at Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral \u2013 including brutal dig at Kamala\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14277291\/Trump-realistic-lip-read-bromance-Obama-Jimmy-Carter-funeral.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. \u201cThe pair laughed and chatted during Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington DC last week. Trump was even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14269617\/Donald-Trump-bombshell-Barack-Obama-Jimmy-Carter-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">questioned about what<\/a> was so funny following the unusual display of friendliness. The speculation left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14267913\/Cryptic-conversation-Barack-Obama-Donald-Trump-revealed-jimmy-carter-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">professional lip readers scrambling to decipher<\/a> what remarks between two bitter rivals has sparked such joyous laughter. Trump then decided to release his own pseudo-version of events live by posting a wildly creative \u2013 and outrageously fake \u2013 lip-read video to Instagram.\u201d \u2022 Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Trump trolls Kamala with hilarious parody video following friendly chat with Obama\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88m1sTy0q5U?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>Obama: \u201cI was just as appalled.\u201d Are we <em>sure<\/em> this is a parody?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncoming Trump Team Is Questioning National Security Council Staff Over Loyalty\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-nsc-loyalty-questions_n_6785077ae4b038251e9354a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u2022 Ick, but after RussiaGate you can see why; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians%206%3A7&version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gal 6:7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawfare<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"24.673128944995\">\n<p>\u201cSpecial counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/11\/jack-smith-resigns-justice-department-trump-criminal-investigation-00197694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u2022 First Smith butchered his case against McAuliffe; then Smith butchered his cases against Trump. I expect we\u2019ll be hearing from him again!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCannon allows for release of Smith report on Trump election interference\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5082606-us-district-court-orders-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cU.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday allowed the release of the volume of special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s report dealing with President-elect Trump\u2019s efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power. In a five-page ruling, Cannon denied an effort by Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to block the release of both volumes of the report, noting that prosecutors argued the election inference report has little to do with the ongoing trial against the two men\u2026. However, Cannon ordered a Jan. 17 hearing on whether to release the Mar-a-Lago report, something Attorney General Merrick Garland said he planned to keep sealed from the public given the ongoing prosecution into valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliveira. The ruling is a victory for the Justice Department, who have been pushing for the release of the report recapping the Jan. 6 investigation in two different courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRedacted Russiagate docs show the feds are STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attempt\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/11\/opinion\/redacted-russiagate-docs-show-the-feds-are-still-lying-about-trump-and-their-putsch-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Post<\/a>]. \u201cThe feds are still lying and obfuscating about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release, years late and heavily redacted, of a document about the origin of the FBI probe. This comes to light thanks only to the dogged efforts of the folks at RealClearInvestigations. The biggest thing the Bureau is still hiding: The \u2018articulable factual basis\u2019 on which its 2017 probe of Trump\u2019s alleged role as a Russian intelligence asset was legitimated.\u201d Then follows an excellent timeline. Conclusion: \u201c[Y]ou don\u2019t have to be Picasso (or Vassily Kandinsky) to connect the dots about what the FBI is still hiding and why. No one can know for sure until the Bureau tells the truth, but it\u2019s beyond likely that the redacted \u2018articulable factual basis\u2019 of the 2017 probe is both non-factual and non-actionable.\u201d \u2022 Yup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"6\">\n<p>Not complicated:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"729\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Note that everybody who masterminded the Kamala 2024 campaign retains hegemony (though we shall see with the DNC election).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"democrats\"\/>Democrats <em>en d\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"51.837182448037\">\n<p>\u201cExclusive: DNC taps Harris\u2019 viral wizards for new social media push\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/13\/dnc-social-media-trump-kamalahq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThe Democratic National Committee is tapping veterans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/14\/trump-harris-memes-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team<\/a> for a new rapid response push ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s return to office, Axios learned. The push is the latest sign of the party\u2019s efforts to rebrand and bring in new audiences after a disappointing 2024 cycle. The new rapid response @FactPostNews initiative will try to combat online misinformation and respond to Trump administration actions by pushing out memes, videos and graphics. The account will be run by many of the same people who led the @KamalaHQ social media account during the 2024 campaign. @FactPostNews will start on X, Threads, and Bluesky and will eventually expand to TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe a stronger weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American people,\u2019 DNC chief mobilization officer Shelby Cole said in a statement. Between the lines: The account will also take a branding cue from social media accounts that have huge, loyal followings, such as PopCrave and PopBase.\u201d \u2022 See, Cole used language like \u201cscrewing over.\u201d That proves they\u2019re authentic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re DNC Members. Here\u2019s What We Need From the Next Party Chair\u201d [David Atkins and Michael Kapp, <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2025\/01\/13\/were-dnc-members-heres-what-we-need-from-the-next-party-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Monthly<\/a>]. \u201cAs the party tries to stem its losses among non-white and non-college voters, fixing the DNC\u2019s culture and structure must be at the top of the list of priorities.\u201d \u2022 Conceptualizing the Democrats problems as \u201closses among non-white and non-college voters\u201d erases the concept of the working class entirely. Perhaps <em>that\u2019s<\/em> the problem?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?\u201d (interview) [Matthew Yglesias, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/394290\/matt-yglesias-democrats-trump-moderation-progressives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vox<\/a>]. Interviewer Eric Levitz. Throwing a flag on the Betteridge\u2019s Law violation here; how does losing to Donald Trump <em>twice<\/em> count as anything but a disaster? Anyhow, trying to find a raisin in this bowl of mush: \u201cThe big picture thing is: Starting in the 2016 campaign and continuing afterwards, Democrats talked a lot about the idea of Donald Trump as an outlier threat to the country \u2014 but in practice, they treated his flaws as an opportunity to be more boldly and aggressively progressive across a whole bunch of fronts.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Like Medicare for All, to take but one example. Or normalizing genocide. How come Biden never gets credit for that?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection math looks like it\u2019s just going to get easier for the GOP\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5080313-census-projections-electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cIt\u2019s going to get tougher and tougher for Democrats to win the Electoral College and the White House if present trends hold, new projections from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest. Democratic strongholds like California and New York appear likely to lose population and multiple electoral votes, while GOP-leaning states like Texas and Florida are likely to pick up votes. That would lead to a shift in 2030. Those changes could help expand the map for the GOP, unless Democrats can figure out ways to win Texas, Florida or some other states they lost to President-elect Trump.\u201d And: \u201cTaken altogether, if the estimated new map was in place for 2024, Trump would have won 10 additional electoral votes, while Vice President Harris would\u2019ve won 10 fewer.\u201d \u2022 So the solution is better messaging. Alrighty then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"27.598455598456\">\n<p>\u201cA time for truth and reconciliation\u201d [Peter Thiel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>]. \u201cIn 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump\u2019s election victory was \u201cnot the apocalypse\u201d. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word <em>apok\u00e1lypsis<\/em>, meaning \u2018unveiling\u2019, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025. Trump\u2019s return to the White House augurs the <em>apok\u00e1lypsis<\/em> of the <em>ancien regime<\/em>\u2018s secrets. The new administration\u2019s revelations need not justify vengeance \u2014 reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth.\u201d After a summary of JFK, Epstein, Fauci, debanking cryptoids (one of these is not like the others): \u201cSouth Africa confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit both Trump\u2019s chaotic style and our internet world, which processes and propagates short packets of information. The first Trump administration shied away from declassifications because it still believed in the rightwing deep state of an Oliver Stone movie. This belief has faded.\u201d And: \u201cOur ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler. There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past.\u201d \u2022 Good shot with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Struldbrugg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">struldbrugg<\/a>.\u201d Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"716\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t read up on Thiel. But from what I have read, I find myself in agreement with Loomer. Which is a little unnerving, to say the least.<\/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:\/\/skylab.cdph.ca.gov\/calwws\/\" 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, thump, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p>Airborne Transmission<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"4.3053435114504\">\n<p>Almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2022\/09\/how-ashish-jha-rochelle-walensky-newton-ma-protect-their-children-from-covid-but-not-yours.html\">five years after Newton<\/a>, but good anyhow:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9767441860465\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.1860465116279\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston has installed CO, CO2 and particulate matter sensors in 4436 classrooms to monitor indoor air quality in real time. Measurements are freely available at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTf81QAqOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/qTf81QAqOA<\/a>. A tremendous effort in transparency. Other similar initiatives: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JA1RvPaXQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/JA1RvPaXQ1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2iOEV0wCHu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2iOEV0wCHu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LET’S AIR (@nousaerons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nousaerons\/status\/1878871440830890004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"11.353166986564\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.625\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 30<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6417910447761\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 21<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.7710843373494\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data January 10:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> Janurary 9, 2005:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5507246376812\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> January 13:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285157\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6417910447761\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 23:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.7735849056604\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"182.75923381557\">\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) Seeing more red and more orange, but nothing new at major hubs. <\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) XEC takes over. That WHO label, \u201cOmmicron,\u201d has done a great job normalizing successive waves of infection.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) A little uptick.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Definitely jumped.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Continued upward trend since, well, Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants). Positivity is new, but variants have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED leveling out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cAerCap CEO warns tariffs could delay Boeing cash recovery\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/aercap-ceo-warns-tariffs-could-hinder-boeing-cash-recovery-2025-01-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]. \u201cAerCap, the world\u2019s largest aircraft leasing company, said on Monday that potential new trade tariffs floated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could hit supply chains and hinder planemaker Boeing\u2019s (BA.N), opens new tab efforts to restore much-needed cash\u2026 \u2018We\u2019ll have to wait and see \u2026 what\u2019s in the detail. A lot of parts that are supplied to Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer aircraft are common,\u201d [AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly] told Reuters on the sidelines of the Airline Economics conference. \u2018What would you do with an engine that\u2019s partly made in France? Are you going to put a tariff of 20% on that engine? Is that counterproductive?\u2019 Kelly added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Stock Would Benefit from a Breakup, Specialist Says\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/CYUUY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u2018\u201dIt\u2019s time for Boeing \u2018s management to wake up and start creating value,\u2019 says Jim Osman\u2026. Boeing shareholders are long-suffering. Through Friday trading, shares were down almost 50% over the past five years while the S&P 500 was up almost 80%. The reasons for the underperformance have been well documented: catastrophic design decisions, a pandemic, management turnover, questionable capital allocation, and poor production quality.<\/p>\n<p>Osman is campaigning for a full breakup. He wants to see Boeing split into its three main divisions: commercial aerospace, defense, and services.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cTroubled Boeing Offers To Assist Nigerian Airlines Secure Aircraft Insurance\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/saharareporters.com\/2025\/01\/13\/troubled-boeing-offers-assist-nigerian-airlines-secure-aircraft-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sahara Reporters<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing International Corporation has expressed its willingness to support Nigerian airlines in securing sufficient aircraft insurance coverage. This assistance will be facilitated through partnerships with financially stable lessors and global financiers. Moore Ibekwe, Boeing\u2019s Sales Director for the Africa Region Commercial Airlines, made this announcement in Dublin, Ireland, at the inaugural meeting of the \u2018Boeing Lessor Forum\u2019, which takes place from January 12 to 15.\u201d \u2022 At least the sales department is in there punching.<\/p>\n<p>Tech: Elon\u2019s mercurial pesonality:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.7139037433155\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.7540106951872\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J7JkxdfrAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/J7JkxdfrAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Leavitt \ud83c\udfb2\ud83c\udfae\ud83e\uddd9\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83c\udf08 (@David_Leavitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Leavitt\/status\/1878330584621101111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Something going on here. Perhaps we should invoke the Twenty Fifth Amendment?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 25 Extreme Fear (previous close: 26 Fear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 37 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jan 13 at 1:33:14 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p> Rapture Index: Closes up one on Wild Weather. \u201cThe fires in California are the result of very wild weather\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptureready.com\/rapture-ready-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rapture Ready<\/a>]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189. Current: 181. (Remember that bringing on the Rapture is good.) \u2022 \u201cWild Weather\u201d (#38) as opposed to Climate (#43).<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s team is discussing a trip to survey the L.A. wildfire devastation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trumps-team-discussing-trip-survey-l-wildfire-devastation-rcna187447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s team is engaged in conversations about his visiting Los Angeles to view the wildfire damage, two sources familiar with the discussions said. Trump, who has repeatedly criticized local and state officials for their response to the fire, has been invited out by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Rep Judy Chu, also a Democrat, said Sunday on CBS News she intended to invite both Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as well. Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt declined to comment on the trip discussions. It\u2019s unclear whether Trump would go before or after his Jan. 20 inauguration\u2026. On \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 this weekend, Vice President-elect JD Vance said he knew Trump \u2018wants to visit California,\u2019 but offered no further details.\u201d\u2022 It\u2019s a trap!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarrow Roads, Deep Canyons: L.A. Firefighters Confront Nature\u2019s Perfect Firetrap\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HqgeC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]. \u201cIt is here, among the cliffs and crevices of Topanga Canyon, that crews face a real dogfight in some of the most complex firefighting topography in the world. Firefighters\u2019 biggest mission is to protect the property and lives of the roughly 10,000 residents, many whose homes cling to steep terrain off winding, tree-lined streets so narrow that two vehicles can\u2019t pass in places. While small in population, Topanga looms large in Angeleno lore as a getaway for Hollywood stars in the 1920s, and home in the 1960s to rockers Neil Young, Jim Morrison and Linda Ronstadt, along with serial killer Charles Manson and his family. Wedged in the Santa Monica Mountains, the canyon has seen numerous blazes over the years\u2014although none as menacing in the 57 years that Armida Madrid has lived here.\u201d \u2022 Worth a read for the local color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLA\u2019s rich & famous hiring $2,000-an-hour private firefighters to protect million-dollar homes & businesses\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/13276163\/la-wildfires-billionaires-private-firefighters-kim-kardashian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The U.S. Sun<\/a>]. \u201cOne wealthy source said: \u2018This week\u2019s events have shown you can\u2019t trust the city to protect your property.\u2019 The source added: \u2018I have the money, so why not?\u2019 Private firefighters are not uncommon in LA with Kim Kardashian using private crews to save her home in Hidden Hills California in the 2013 wildfires.\u201d \u2022\u00a0And all these lovely people will seek places to live that are \u201cunspoiled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEditorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/01\/12\/editorial-los-angeles-palisades-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>]. \u201cHere in Chicago, historians see a fire in which one-third of people in this city lost their homes and at least 300 died as a unique catalyst for growth and reinvention, although it it is often forgotten that the city got a lot of help from people outside its borders. Within little more than year, a visitor to Chicago could not see many visible signs of the prior destruction, and the roaring city had gained a fierce and lasting reputation for resilience and new opportunity. Once the fires are out and losses mourned, LA will have a similar chance to look hard at the changing environment in which it lives, improve its services with the benefit of bitter experience and build back better. For now, though, we stand with its people through the painful slog of recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe psychological toll of California\u2019s catastrophic fires\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/12\/california-wildfires-loss-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cPeople exposed to California\u2019s deadliest wildfire, the 2018 Camp Fire, showed greater chronic symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/climate\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pclm.0000125#sec020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">research<\/a> published in 2023. \u2018These findings dovetail with significant psychological impacts noted after extreme climate events,\u2019 researchers wrote. \u2018Warming temperatures have been further linked to greater suicide rates.\u2019 Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44220-024-00210-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study from last year<\/a> found that wildfires are associated with increased emergency room visits for anxiety disorders in the western U.S. Sometimes pragmatism comes before grief during a disaster like the urban wildfires, Katzman said. People might first prioritize figuring out what a return to work or school will could like, before processing the loss\u2026. \u2018Solastalgia\u2019 has been used to describe the chronic distress of seeing negative environmental change in one\u2019s home environment.\u201d \u2022 Word of the day: \u201cSolastalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather like Occupy Sandy:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.7823129251701\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.401360544218\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re seeing all the air filters and respirators being handed out for free in LA, remember these resources are only available because covid activists have remained steadfast in advocating for clean air and mask use since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 inky labyrinth \ud83d\udcda\ud83c\udf49 (@InkyLabyrinth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InkyLabyrinth\/status\/1878150100750643328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New bird:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.6875\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.0625\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Monet, The Magpie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gH0oIzUPAK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/gH0oIzUPAK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Impressions (@impression_ists) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/impression_ists\/status\/1878819025020760356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Old bird (I apologize for X\u2019s miserable cropping algorithm):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.6984732824427\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.4351145038168\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pieter Bruegel The Elder<br \/>The Hunters in the Snow (detail) 1565 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ama6QstDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2ama6QstDU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marysia (@marysia_cc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marysia_cc\/status\/1878531897153945963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin\u2019s Aesthetics\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/collegetowns.substack.com\/p\/celebrating-the-timeless-allure-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">College Towns<\/a>]. \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic\u2026. The panels and pages within Tintin are filled with an ephemeral old world that doesn\u2019t really exist anymore (if it ever did). Herg\u00e9 creates a sense of scaled urbanism as well as the naturalistic world in fantastical yet real places. The color palettes and details give it a mood and atmosphere that has universal appeal. Dark-drawn outlines allow the colors to pop off the page, called \u201cEuropean \u2018ligne claire\u2019 style,\u201d according to cartoonist Barry Deutsch. These stills are from comic panels, but they are also works of art with aesthetics immediately recognizable. They give a range of emotions: a new adventure begins in the bustle of a big city, the immensity of a mountain range, the calmness of home.\u201d \u2022 Reminds me a bit of Richard Scarry, who I saw recommend recently for his book on fire-fighting equipment. And as with Babar the Elephant, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a colonial interpretation to be had. But for now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"823\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/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\/2025\/01\/200pm-water-cooler-1-9-2025.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cThis is an Aloe Tree growing along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California. (Taken from a sidewalk well above it.)\u201d I am a big fan of depth of field and this image shows why.<\/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. 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Patient readers, I got a late start today. I\u2019ll make it up tomorrow, I swear! \u2013lambert<\/p>\n
Bird Song of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brown Thrasher, Long Branch SP and Lake, Macon, Missouri, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#trump\">Trump transition<\/a>: Gabbard, Hegseth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#democrats\">\u201cThat\u2019s quite an act<\/a>. What do you call it?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#zeitgeist\">LA fires<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wired\">Tintin<\/a> now in the public domain.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Capitol Seizure<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"9.6404494382022\">\n<p>\u201cVance says Jan. 6 participants who committed violence \u2018obviously\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be pardoned\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vance-trump-pardons-capitol-riot-31308a54ebac4ef6783662f595262dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u201cVance insisted in an interview on \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 that the pardon question is \u2018very simple,\u2019 saying those who \u2018protested peacefully\u2019 should be pardoned and \u2018if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn\u2019t be pardoned.\u2019 He later said there was a \u2018bit of a gray area\u2019 in some cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"trump\"\/>Trump Transition<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"60.182424480188\">\n<p>\u201cDemocrats want to slow Gabbard confirmation path\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5079910-senate-democrats-delay-gabbard-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cDemocrats are insisting on delaying Gabbard\u2019s confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence, saying they still don\u2019t have the full slate of background checks, ethics disclosures and paperwork on a candidate whose overall qualifications have sparked their concern. \u2018We\u2019re going to insist on these documents before we go forward. I mean, that\u2019s just kind of a nonnegotiable. You can\u2019t do \u2018advice and consent\u2019 without it,\u2019 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said. \u2018Particularly in the national security context, it\u2019s critical that you have these documents. Maybe it\u2019s not flashy and it\u2019s not viral, but it happens to be how I feel.\u2019 The pushback appears to have successfully delayed a hearing that would normally take place ahead of Trump being sworn into office Jan. 20\u2026. \u2018This is an extraordinarily important job,\u2019 [ Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)] continued. \u2018A lot of this [is] also about protecting the independence of the intelligence community and making sure we continue to have the ability to share classified information with our allies.’\u201d \u2022 Lol, the \u201cindependence of the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHegseth\u2019s views on women in combat, infidelity and more \u2014 in his own words\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-background-defense-secretary-confirmation-hearing-e160e10c86385a8beff110d9190fb34e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u201cIf confirmed, [Hegseth] has said there will be no more \u2018social justice, politically correct approaches to how we fight and conduct wars.\u2019 Instead, he said, \u2018this is about lethality, meritocracy, readiness.’\u201d \u2022 Well\u2026 OTOH, we don\u2019t want to turn into the IDF, now do we?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s Cabinet disruptors soften key views as hearings loom\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/12\/trump-confirmation-hearings-hegseth-gabbard-rfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThree of President-elect Trump\u2019s most provocative Cabinet picks have reversed key positions ahead of next week\u2019s confirmation hearings, softening their edges for an establishment they\u2019ve been charged with tearing down. For as powerful as MAGA has become, the Senate\u2019s confirmation process remains a significant obstacle \u2014 at least nominally \u2014 to injecting fringe beliefs directly into the heart of government\u2026. Gabbard told <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/senate\/gabbard-changes-stance-on-section-702\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Punchbowl News<\/a> on Friday that she now supports the Section 702 surveillance program thanks to updated whistleblower and civil liberty protections\u2026. RFK Jr. told reporters on Capitol Hill last month: \u2018I\u2019m all for the polio vaccine’\u201d Now do MMR. More: \u201cHegseth, after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/09\/joni-ernst-hegseth-senate-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">early clash<\/a> with Army veteran Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/12\/11\/pete-hegseth-women-combat-reversal\/76925867007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said he supports<\/a> \u2018all women serving in our military today.’\u201d And: \u201cTheir maximalist impulses may have been tamed, but that doesn\u2019t mean Gabbard, Kennedy and Hegseth won\u2019t be able to radically transform their agencies in the way MAGA envisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBessent to divest from assets on road to leading Treasury\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5081850-bessent-to-divest-from-assets-on-road-to-leading-treasury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Trump\u2019s Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent has plans to divest from funds and other investments as he prepares to take over as the country\u2019s top economic official. In an agreement released Saturday by the Office of Government Ethics ahead of Bessent\u2019s confirmation hearing on Thursday, he outlined his plans. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, also shared his financial disclosures ahead of the Senate hearing later this week. Top government officials typically are required to disclose their holdings and divest from ones that could cause a conflict of interest. \u2018In the event that an actual or potential conflict of interest arises during my appointment, I will consult with an agency ethics official and take the measures necessary to resolve the conflict, such as recusal from the particular matter or divestiture of an asset,\u2019 Bessent wrote. Bessent said he will resign from his position with Key Square Group upon being confirmed by the Senate. He said he would also divest his partnership share in the company \u2018as soon as practicable.\u2019 Bessent said he would resign from his positions at other companies and foundations as well.\u201d \u2022 Everything going very smoothly with Bessent.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Nice work, Susie:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.2201492537313\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.3432835820896\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vivek has only posted twice on X since the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AFpost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOikWxjJ5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/VOikWxjJ5Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AF Post (@AFpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/1878271490719613317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump posts wildly realistic lip-read of bromance with Obama at Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral \u2013 including brutal dig at Kamala\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14277291\/Trump-realistic-lip-read-bromance-Obama-Jimmy-Carter-funeral.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. \u201cThe pair laughed and chatted during Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington DC last week. Trump was even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14269617\/Donald-Trump-bombshell-Barack-Obama-Jimmy-Carter-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">questioned about what<\/a> was so funny following the unusual display of friendliness. The speculation left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14267913\/Cryptic-conversation-Barack-Obama-Donald-Trump-revealed-jimmy-carter-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">professional lip readers scrambling to decipher<\/a> what remarks between two bitter rivals has sparked such joyous laughter. Trump then decided to release his own pseudo-version of events live by posting a wildly creative \u2013 and outrageously fake \u2013 lip-read video to Instagram.\u201d \u2022 Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Trump trolls Kamala with hilarious parody video following friendly chat with Obama\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88m1sTy0q5U?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>Obama: \u201cI was just as appalled.\u201d Are we <em>sure<\/em> this is a parody?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncoming Trump Team Is Questioning National Security Council Staff Over Loyalty\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-nsc-loyalty-questions_n_6785077ae4b038251e9354a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u2022 Ick, but after RussiaGate you can see why; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians%206%3A7&version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gal 6:7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawfare<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"24.673128944995\">\n<p>\u201cSpecial counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/11\/jack-smith-resigns-justice-department-trump-criminal-investigation-00197694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u2022 First Smith butchered his case against McAuliffe; then Smith butchered his cases against Trump. I expect we\u2019ll be hearing from him again!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCannon allows for release of Smith report on Trump election interference\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5082606-us-district-court-orders-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cU.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday allowed the release of the volume of special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s report dealing with President-elect Trump\u2019s efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power. In a five-page ruling, Cannon denied an effort by Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to block the release of both volumes of the report, noting that prosecutors argued the election inference report has little to do with the ongoing trial against the two men\u2026. However, Cannon ordered a Jan. 17 hearing on whether to release the Mar-a-Lago report, something Attorney General Merrick Garland said he planned to keep sealed from the public given the ongoing prosecution into valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliveira. The ruling is a victory for the Justice Department, who have been pushing for the release of the report recapping the Jan. 6 investigation in two different courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRedacted Russiagate docs show the feds are STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attempt\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/11\/opinion\/redacted-russiagate-docs-show-the-feds-are-still-lying-about-trump-and-their-putsch-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Post<\/a>]. \u201cThe feds are still lying and obfuscating about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release, years late and heavily redacted, of a document about the origin of the FBI probe. This comes to light thanks only to the dogged efforts of the folks at RealClearInvestigations. The biggest thing the Bureau is still hiding: The \u2018articulable factual basis\u2019 on which its 2017 probe of Trump\u2019s alleged role as a Russian intelligence asset was legitimated.\u201d Then follows an excellent timeline. Conclusion: \u201c[Y]ou don\u2019t have to be Picasso (or Vassily Kandinsky) to connect the dots about what the FBI is still hiding and why. No one can know for sure until the Bureau tells the truth, but it\u2019s beyond likely that the redacted \u2018articulable factual basis\u2019 of the 2017 probe is both non-factual and non-actionable.\u201d \u2022 Yup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"6\">\n<p>Not complicated:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"729\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Note that everybody who masterminded the Kamala 2024 campaign retains hegemony (though we shall see with the DNC election).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"democrats\"\/>Democrats <em>en d\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"51.837182448037\">\n<p>\u201cExclusive: DNC taps Harris\u2019 viral wizards for new social media push\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/13\/dnc-social-media-trump-kamalahq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThe Democratic National Committee is tapping veterans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/14\/trump-harris-memes-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team<\/a> for a new rapid response push ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s return to office, Axios learned. The push is the latest sign of the party\u2019s efforts to rebrand and bring in new audiences after a disappointing 2024 cycle. The new rapid response @FactPostNews initiative will try to combat online misinformation and respond to Trump administration actions by pushing out memes, videos and graphics. The account will be run by many of the same people who led the @KamalaHQ social media account during the 2024 campaign. @FactPostNews will start on X, Threads, and Bluesky and will eventually expand to TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe a stronger weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American people,\u2019 DNC chief mobilization officer Shelby Cole said in a statement. Between the lines: The account will also take a branding cue from social media accounts that have huge, loyal followings, such as PopCrave and PopBase.\u201d \u2022 See, Cole used language like \u201cscrewing over.\u201d That proves they\u2019re authentic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re DNC Members. Here\u2019s What We Need From the Next Party Chair\u201d [David Atkins and Michael Kapp, <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2025\/01\/13\/were-dnc-members-heres-what-we-need-from-the-next-party-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Monthly<\/a>]. \u201cAs the party tries to stem its losses among non-white and non-college voters, fixing the DNC\u2019s culture and structure must be at the top of the list of priorities.\u201d \u2022 Conceptualizing the Democrats problems as \u201closses among non-white and non-college voters\u201d erases the concept of the working class entirely. Perhaps <em>that\u2019s<\/em> the problem?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?\u201d (interview) [Matthew Yglesias, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/394290\/matt-yglesias-democrats-trump-moderation-progressives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vox<\/a>]. Interviewer Eric Levitz. Throwing a flag on the Betteridge\u2019s Law violation here; how does losing to Donald Trump <em>twice<\/em> count as anything but a disaster? Anyhow, trying to find a raisin in this bowl of mush: \u201cThe big picture thing is: Starting in the 2016 campaign and continuing afterwards, Democrats talked a lot about the idea of Donald Trump as an outlier threat to the country \u2014 but in practice, they treated his flaws as an opportunity to be more boldly and aggressively progressive across a whole bunch of fronts.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Like Medicare for All, to take but one example. Or normalizing genocide. How come Biden never gets credit for that?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection math looks like it\u2019s just going to get easier for the GOP\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5080313-census-projections-electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cIt\u2019s going to get tougher and tougher for Democrats to win the Electoral College and the White House if present trends hold, new projections from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest. Democratic strongholds like California and New York appear likely to lose population and multiple electoral votes, while GOP-leaning states like Texas and Florida are likely to pick up votes. That would lead to a shift in 2030. Those changes could help expand the map for the GOP, unless Democrats can figure out ways to win Texas, Florida or some other states they lost to President-elect Trump.\u201d And: \u201cTaken altogether, if the estimated new map was in place for 2024, Trump would have won 10 additional electoral votes, while Vice President Harris would\u2019ve won 10 fewer.\u201d \u2022 So the solution is better messaging. Alrighty then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"27.598455598456\">\n<p>\u201cA time for truth and reconciliation\u201d [Peter Thiel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>]. \u201cIn 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump\u2019s election victory was \u201cnot the apocalypse\u201d. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word <em>apok\u00e1lypsis<\/em>, meaning \u2018unveiling\u2019, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025. Trump\u2019s return to the White House augurs the <em>apok\u00e1lypsis<\/em> of the <em>ancien regime<\/em>\u2018s secrets. The new administration\u2019s revelations need not justify vengeance \u2014 reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth.\u201d After a summary of JFK, Epstein, Fauci, debanking cryptoids (one of these is not like the others): \u201cSouth Africa confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit both Trump\u2019s chaotic style and our internet world, which processes and propagates short packets of information. The first Trump administration shied away from declassifications because it still believed in the rightwing deep state of an Oliver Stone movie. This belief has faded.\u201d And: \u201cOur ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler. There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past.\u201d \u2022 Good shot with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Struldbrugg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">struldbrugg<\/a>.\u201d Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"716\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t read up on Thiel. But from what I have read, I find myself in agreement with Loomer. Which is a little unnerving, to say the least.<\/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:\/\/skylab.cdph.ca.gov\/calwws\/\" 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, thump, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p>Airborne Transmission<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"4.3053435114504\">\n<p>Almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2022\/09\/how-ashish-jha-rochelle-walensky-newton-ma-protect-their-children-from-covid-but-not-yours.html\">five years after Newton<\/a>, but good anyhow:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9767441860465\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.1860465116279\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston has installed CO, CO2 and particulate matter sensors in 4436 classrooms to monitor indoor air quality in real time. Measurements are freely available at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTf81QAqOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/qTf81QAqOA<\/a>. A tremendous effort in transparency. Other similar initiatives: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JA1RvPaXQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/JA1RvPaXQ1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2iOEV0wCHu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2iOEV0wCHu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LET’S AIR (@nousaerons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nousaerons\/status\/1878871440830890004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"11.353166986564\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.625\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 30<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6417910447761\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 21<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.7710843373494\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data January 10:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> Janurary 9, 2005:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5507246376812\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> January 13:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285157\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6417910447761\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 23:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.7735849056604\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"182.75923381557\">\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) Seeing more red and more orange, but nothing new at major hubs. <\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) XEC takes over. That WHO label, \u201cOmmicron,\u201d has done a great job normalizing successive waves of infection.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) A little uptick.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Definitely jumped.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Continued upward trend since, well, Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants). Positivity is new, but variants have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED leveling out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cAerCap CEO warns tariffs could delay Boeing cash recovery\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/aercap-ceo-warns-tariffs-could-hinder-boeing-cash-recovery-2025-01-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]. \u201cAerCap, the world\u2019s largest aircraft leasing company, said on Monday that potential new trade tariffs floated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could hit supply chains and hinder planemaker Boeing\u2019s (BA.N), opens new tab efforts to restore much-needed cash\u2026 \u2018We\u2019ll have to wait and see \u2026 what\u2019s in the detail. A lot of parts that are supplied to Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer aircraft are common,\u201d [AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly] told Reuters on the sidelines of the Airline Economics conference. \u2018What would you do with an engine that\u2019s partly made in France? Are you going to put a tariff of 20% on that engine? Is that counterproductive?\u2019 Kelly added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Stock Would Benefit from a Breakup, Specialist Says\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/CYUUY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u2018\u201dIt\u2019s time for Boeing \u2018s management to wake up and start creating value,\u2019 says Jim Osman\u2026. Boeing shareholders are long-suffering. Through Friday trading, shares were down almost 50% over the past five years while the S&P 500 was up almost 80%. The reasons for the underperformance have been well documented: catastrophic design decisions, a pandemic, management turnover, questionable capital allocation, and poor production quality.<\/p>\n<p>Osman is campaigning for a full breakup. He wants to see Boeing split into its three main divisions: commercial aerospace, defense, and services.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cTroubled Boeing Offers To Assist Nigerian Airlines Secure Aircraft Insurance\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/saharareporters.com\/2025\/01\/13\/troubled-boeing-offers-assist-nigerian-airlines-secure-aircraft-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sahara Reporters<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing International Corporation has expressed its willingness to support Nigerian airlines in securing sufficient aircraft insurance coverage. This assistance will be facilitated through partnerships with financially stable lessors and global financiers. Moore Ibekwe, Boeing\u2019s Sales Director for the Africa Region Commercial Airlines, made this announcement in Dublin, Ireland, at the inaugural meeting of the \u2018Boeing Lessor Forum\u2019, which takes place from January 12 to 15.\u201d \u2022 At least the sales department is in there punching.<\/p>\n<p>Tech: Elon\u2019s mercurial pesonality:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.7139037433155\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.7540106951872\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J7JkxdfrAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/J7JkxdfrAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Leavitt \ud83c\udfb2\ud83c\udfae\ud83e\uddd9\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83c\udf08 (@David_Leavitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Leavitt\/status\/1878330584621101111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Something going on here. Perhaps we should invoke the Twenty Fifth Amendment?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 25 Extreme Fear (previous close: 26 Fear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 37 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jan 13 at 1:33:14 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p> Rapture Index: Closes up one on Wild Weather. \u201cThe fires in California are the result of very wild weather\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptureready.com\/rapture-ready-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rapture Ready<\/a>]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189. Current: 181. (Remember that bringing on the Rapture is good.) \u2022 \u201cWild Weather\u201d (#38) as opposed to Climate (#43).<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s team is discussing a trip to survey the L.A. wildfire devastation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trumps-team-discussing-trip-survey-l-wildfire-devastation-rcna187447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s team is engaged in conversations about his visiting Los Angeles to view the wildfire damage, two sources familiar with the discussions said. Trump, who has repeatedly criticized local and state officials for their response to the fire, has been invited out by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Rep Judy Chu, also a Democrat, said Sunday on CBS News she intended to invite both Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as well. Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt declined to comment on the trip discussions. It\u2019s unclear whether Trump would go before or after his Jan. 20 inauguration\u2026. On \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 this weekend, Vice President-elect JD Vance said he knew Trump \u2018wants to visit California,\u2019 but offered no further details.\u201d\u2022 It\u2019s a trap!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarrow Roads, Deep Canyons: L.A. Firefighters Confront Nature\u2019s Perfect Firetrap\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HqgeC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]. \u201cIt is here, among the cliffs and crevices of Topanga Canyon, that crews face a real dogfight in some of the most complex firefighting topography in the world. Firefighters\u2019 biggest mission is to protect the property and lives of the roughly 10,000 residents, many whose homes cling to steep terrain off winding, tree-lined streets so narrow that two vehicles can\u2019t pass in places. While small in population, Topanga looms large in Angeleno lore as a getaway for Hollywood stars in the 1920s, and home in the 1960s to rockers Neil Young, Jim Morrison and Linda Ronstadt, along with serial killer Charles Manson and his family. Wedged in the Santa Monica Mountains, the canyon has seen numerous blazes over the years\u2014although none as menacing in the 57 years that Armida Madrid has lived here.\u201d \u2022 Worth a read for the local color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLA\u2019s rich & famous hiring $2,000-an-hour private firefighters to protect million-dollar homes & businesses\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/13276163\/la-wildfires-billionaires-private-firefighters-kim-kardashian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The U.S. Sun<\/a>]. \u201cOne wealthy source said: \u2018This week\u2019s events have shown you can\u2019t trust the city to protect your property.\u2019 The source added: \u2018I have the money, so why not?\u2019 Private firefighters are not uncommon in LA with Kim Kardashian using private crews to save her home in Hidden Hills California in the 2013 wildfires.\u201d \u2022\u00a0And all these lovely people will seek places to live that are \u201cunspoiled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEditorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/01\/12\/editorial-los-angeles-palisades-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>]. \u201cHere in Chicago, historians see a fire in which one-third of people in this city lost their homes and at least 300 died as a unique catalyst for growth and reinvention, although it it is often forgotten that the city got a lot of help from people outside its borders. Within little more than year, a visitor to Chicago could not see many visible signs of the prior destruction, and the roaring city had gained a fierce and lasting reputation for resilience and new opportunity. Once the fires are out and losses mourned, LA will have a similar chance to look hard at the changing environment in which it lives, improve its services with the benefit of bitter experience and build back better. For now, though, we stand with its people through the painful slog of recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe psychological toll of California\u2019s catastrophic fires\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/12\/california-wildfires-loss-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cPeople exposed to California\u2019s deadliest wildfire, the 2018 Camp Fire, showed greater chronic symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/climate\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pclm.0000125#sec020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">research<\/a> published in 2023. \u2018These findings dovetail with significant psychological impacts noted after extreme climate events,\u2019 researchers wrote. \u2018Warming temperatures have been further linked to greater suicide rates.\u2019 Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44220-024-00210-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study from last year<\/a> found that wildfires are associated with increased emergency room visits for anxiety disorders in the western U.S. Sometimes pragmatism comes before grief during a disaster like the urban wildfires, Katzman said. People might first prioritize figuring out what a return to work or school will could like, before processing the loss\u2026. \u2018Solastalgia\u2019 has been used to describe the chronic distress of seeing negative environmental change in one\u2019s home environment.\u201d \u2022 Word of the day: \u201cSolastalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather like Occupy Sandy:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.7823129251701\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.401360544218\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re seeing all the air filters and respirators being handed out for free in LA, remember these resources are only available because covid activists have remained steadfast in advocating for clean air and mask use since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 inky labyrinth \ud83d\udcda\ud83c\udf49 (@InkyLabyrinth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InkyLabyrinth\/status\/1878150100750643328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New bird:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.6875\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.0625\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Monet, The Magpie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gH0oIzUPAK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/gH0oIzUPAK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Impressions (@impression_ists) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/impression_ists\/status\/1878819025020760356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Old bird (I apologize for X\u2019s miserable cropping algorithm):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.6984732824427\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.4351145038168\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pieter Bruegel The Elder<br \/>The Hunters in the Snow (detail) 1565 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ama6QstDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2ama6QstDU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marysia (@marysia_cc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marysia_cc\/status\/1878531897153945963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin\u2019s Aesthetics\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/collegetowns.substack.com\/p\/celebrating-the-timeless-allure-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">College Towns<\/a>]. \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic\u2026. The panels and pages within Tintin are filled with an ephemeral old world that doesn\u2019t really exist anymore (if it ever did). Herg\u00e9 creates a sense of scaled urbanism as well as the naturalistic world in fantastical yet real places. The color palettes and details give it a mood and atmosphere that has universal appeal. Dark-drawn outlines allow the colors to pop off the page, called \u201cEuropean \u2018ligne claire\u2019 style,\u201d according to cartoonist Barry Deutsch. These stills are from comic panels, but they are also works of art with aesthetics immediately recognizable. They give a range of emotions: a new adventure begins in the bustle of a big city, the immensity of a mountain range, the calmness of home.\u201d \u2022 Reminds me a bit of Richard Scarry, who I saw recommend recently for his book on fire-fighting equipment. And as with Babar the Elephant, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a colonial interpretation to be had. But for now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"823\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/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\/2025\/01\/200pm-water-cooler-1-9-2025.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cThis is an Aloe Tree growing along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California. (Taken from a sidewalk well above it.)\u201d I am a big fan of depth of field and this image shows why.<\/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. 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Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (\u201cBecause markets\u201d). I don\u2019t much care about the \u201cism\u201d that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brown Thrasher, Long Branch SP and Lake, Macon, Missouri, United States.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#trump\">Trump transition<\/a>: Gabbard, Hegseth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#democrats\">\u201cThat\u2019s quite an act<\/a>. What do you call it?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#zeitgeist\">LA fires<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#wired\">Tintin<\/a> now in the public domain.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Capitol Seizure<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"9.6404494382022\">\n<p>\u201cVance says Jan. 6 participants who committed violence \u2018obviously\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be pardoned\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vance-trump-pardons-capitol-riot-31308a54ebac4ef6783662f595262dec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u201cVance insisted in an interview on \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 that the pardon question is \u2018very simple,\u2019 saying those who \u2018protested peacefully\u2019 should be pardoned and \u2018if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn\u2019t be pardoned.\u2019 He later said there was a \u2018bit of a gray area\u2019 in some cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"trump\"\/>Trump Transition<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"60.182424480188\">\n<p>\u201cDemocrats want to slow Gabbard confirmation path\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5079910-senate-democrats-delay-gabbard-confirmation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cDemocrats are insisting on delaying Gabbard\u2019s confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence, saying they still don\u2019t have the full slate of background checks, ethics disclosures and paperwork on a candidate whose overall qualifications have sparked their concern. \u2018We\u2019re going to insist on these documents before we go forward. I mean, that\u2019s just kind of a nonnegotiable. You can\u2019t do \u2018advice and consent\u2019 without it,\u2019 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said. \u2018Particularly in the national security context, it\u2019s critical that you have these documents. Maybe it\u2019s not flashy and it\u2019s not viral, but it happens to be how I feel.\u2019 The pushback appears to have successfully delayed a hearing that would normally take place ahead of Trump being sworn into office Jan. 20\u2026. \u2018This is an extraordinarily important job,\u2019 [ Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)] continued. \u2018A lot of this [is] also about protecting the independence of the intelligence community and making sure we continue to have the ability to share classified information with our allies.’\u201d \u2022 Lol, the \u201cindependence of the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHegseth\u2019s views on women in combat, infidelity and more \u2014 in his own words\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-background-defense-secretary-confirmation-hearing-e160e10c86385a8beff110d9190fb34e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u201cIf confirmed, [Hegseth] has said there will be no more \u2018social justice, politically correct approaches to how we fight and conduct wars.\u2019 Instead, he said, \u2018this is about lethality, meritocracy, readiness.’\u201d \u2022 Well\u2026 OTOH, we don\u2019t want to turn into the IDF, now do we?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s Cabinet disruptors soften key views as hearings loom\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/12\/trump-confirmation-hearings-hegseth-gabbard-rfk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThree of President-elect Trump\u2019s most provocative Cabinet picks have reversed key positions ahead of next week\u2019s confirmation hearings, softening their edges for an establishment they\u2019ve been charged with tearing down. For as powerful as MAGA has become, the Senate\u2019s confirmation process remains a significant obstacle \u2014 at least nominally \u2014 to injecting fringe beliefs directly into the heart of government\u2026. Gabbard told <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/senate\/gabbard-changes-stance-on-section-702\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Punchbowl News<\/a> on Friday that she now supports the Section 702 surveillance program thanks to updated whistleblower and civil liberty protections\u2026. RFK Jr. told reporters on Capitol Hill last month: \u2018I\u2019m all for the polio vaccine’\u201d Now do MMR. More: \u201cHegseth, after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/09\/joni-ernst-hegseth-senate-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">early clash<\/a> with Army veteran Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/12\/11\/pete-hegseth-women-combat-reversal\/76925867007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said he supports<\/a> \u2018all women serving in our military today.’\u201d And: \u201cTheir maximalist impulses may have been tamed, but that doesn\u2019t mean Gabbard, Kennedy and Hegseth won\u2019t be able to radically transform their agencies in the way MAGA envisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBessent to divest from assets on road to leading Treasury\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5081850-bessent-to-divest-from-assets-on-road-to-leading-treasury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Trump\u2019s Treasury Secretary pick Scott Bessent has plans to divest from funds and other investments as he prepares to take over as the country\u2019s top economic official. In an agreement released Saturday by the Office of Government Ethics ahead of Bessent\u2019s confirmation hearing on Thursday, he outlined his plans. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, also shared his financial disclosures ahead of the Senate hearing later this week. Top government officials typically are required to disclose their holdings and divest from ones that could cause a conflict of interest. \u2018In the event that an actual or potential conflict of interest arises during my appointment, I will consult with an agency ethics official and take the measures necessary to resolve the conflict, such as recusal from the particular matter or divestiture of an asset,\u2019 Bessent wrote. Bessent said he will resign from his position with Key Square Group upon being confirmed by the Senate. He said he would also divest his partnership share in the company \u2018as soon as practicable.\u2019 Bessent said he would resign from his positions at other companies and foundations as well.\u201d \u2022 Everything going very smoothly with Bessent.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Nice work, Susie:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.2201492537313\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"6.3432835820896\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vivek has only posted twice on X since the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AFpost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOikWxjJ5Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/VOikWxjJ5Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AF Post (@AFpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/1878271490719613317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump posts wildly realistic lip-read of bromance with Obama at Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral \u2013 including brutal dig at Kamala\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14277291\/Trump-realistic-lip-read-bromance-Obama-Jimmy-Carter-funeral.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>]. \u201cThe pair laughed and chatted during Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington DC last week. Trump was even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14269617\/Donald-Trump-bombshell-Barack-Obama-Jimmy-Carter-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">questioned about what<\/a> was so funny following the unusual display of friendliness. The speculation left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14267913\/Cryptic-conversation-Barack-Obama-Donald-Trump-revealed-jimmy-carter-funeral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">professional lip readers scrambling to decipher<\/a> what remarks between two bitter rivals has sparked such joyous laughter. Trump then decided to release his own pseudo-version of events live by posting a wildly creative \u2013 and outrageously fake \u2013 lip-read video to Instagram.\u201d \u2022 Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Trump trolls Kamala with hilarious parody video following friendly chat with Obama\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88m1sTy0q5U?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>Obama: \u201cI was just as appalled.\u201d Are we <em>sure<\/em> this is a parody?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncoming Trump Team Is Questioning National Security Council Staff Over Loyalty\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-nsc-loyalty-questions_n_6785077ae4b038251e9354a1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>]. \u2022 Ick, but after RussiaGate you can see why; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians%206%3A7&version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gal 6:7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawfare<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"24.673128944995\">\n<p>\u201cSpecial counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/11\/jack-smith-resigns-justice-department-trump-criminal-investigation-00197694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico<\/a>]. \u2022 First Smith butchered his case against McAuliffe; then Smith butchered his cases against Trump. I expect we\u2019ll be hearing from him again!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCannon allows for release of Smith report on Trump election interference\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5082606-us-district-court-orders-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cU.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday allowed the release of the volume of special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s report dealing with President-elect Trump\u2019s efforts to block the peaceful transfer of power. In a five-page ruling, Cannon denied an effort by Trump and his two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to block the release of both volumes of the report, noting that prosecutors argued the election inference report has little to do with the ongoing trial against the two men\u2026. However, Cannon ordered a Jan. 17 hearing on whether to release the Mar-a-Lago report, something Attorney General Merrick Garland said he planned to keep sealed from the public given the ongoing prosecution into valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos de Oliveira. The ruling is a victory for the Justice Department, who have been pushing for the release of the report recapping the Jan. 6 investigation in two different courts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRedacted Russiagate docs show the feds are STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attempt\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/11\/opinion\/redacted-russiagate-docs-show-the-feds-are-still-lying-about-trump-and-their-putsch-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Post<\/a>]. \u201cThe feds are still lying and obfuscating about the Russiagate conspiracy against Donald Trump: Witness the recent release, years late and heavily redacted, of a document about the origin of the FBI probe. This comes to light thanks only to the dogged efforts of the folks at RealClearInvestigations. The biggest thing the Bureau is still hiding: The \u2018articulable factual basis\u2019 on which its 2017 probe of Trump\u2019s alleged role as a Russian intelligence asset was legitimated.\u201d Then follows an excellent timeline. Conclusion: \u201c[Y]ou don\u2019t have to be Picasso (or Vassily Kandinsky) to connect the dots about what the FBI is still hiding and why. No one can know for sure until the Bureau tells the truth, but it\u2019s beyond likely that the redacted \u2018articulable factual basis\u2019 of the 2017 probe is both non-factual and non-actionable.\u201d \u2022 Yup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2024 Post Mortem<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"6\">\n<p>Not complicated:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"729\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jeet_heer-247x300.png 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Note that everybody who masterminded the Kamala 2024 campaign retains hegemony (though we shall see with the DNC election).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"democrats\"\/>Democrats <em>en d\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"51.837182448037\">\n<p>\u201cExclusive: DNC taps Harris\u2019 viral wizards for new social media push\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/13\/dnc-social-media-trump-kamalahq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cThe Democratic National Committee is tapping veterans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/14\/trump-harris-memes-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wildly popular @KamalaHQ social media team<\/a> for a new rapid response push ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s return to office, Axios learned. The push is the latest sign of the party\u2019s efforts to rebrand and bring in new audiences after a disappointing 2024 cycle. The new rapid response @FactPostNews initiative will try to combat online misinformation and respond to Trump administration actions by pushing out memes, videos and graphics. The account will be run by many of the same people who led the @KamalaHQ social media account during the 2024 campaign. @FactPostNews will start on X, Threads, and Bluesky and will eventually expand to TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe a stronger weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American people,\u2019 DNC chief mobilization officer Shelby Cole said in a statement. Between the lines: The account will also take a branding cue from social media accounts that have huge, loyal followings, such as PopCrave and PopBase.\u201d \u2022 See, Cole used language like \u201cscrewing over.\u201d That proves they\u2019re authentic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re DNC Members. Here\u2019s What We Need From the Next Party Chair\u201d [David Atkins and Michael Kapp, <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2025\/01\/13\/were-dnc-members-heres-what-we-need-from-the-next-party-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Monthly<\/a>]. \u201cAs the party tries to stem its losses among non-white and non-college voters, fixing the DNC\u2019s culture and structure must be at the top of the list of priorities.\u201d \u2022 Conceptualizing the Democrats problems as \u201closses among non-white and non-college voters\u201d erases the concept of the working class entirely. Perhaps <em>that\u2019s<\/em> the problem?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave the past 10 years of Democratic politics been a disaster?\u201d (interview) [Matthew Yglesias, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/394290\/matt-yglesias-democrats-trump-moderation-progressives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vox<\/a>]. Interviewer Eric Levitz. Throwing a flag on the Betteridge\u2019s Law violation here; how does losing to Donald Trump <em>twice<\/em> count as anything but a disaster? Anyhow, trying to find a raisin in this bowl of mush: \u201cThe big picture thing is: Starting in the 2016 campaign and continuing afterwards, Democrats talked a lot about the idea of Donald Trump as an outlier threat to the country \u2014 but in practice, they treated his flaws as an opportunity to be more boldly and aggressively progressive across a whole bunch of fronts.\u201d \u2022\u00a0Like Medicare for All, to take but one example. Or normalizing genocide. How come Biden never gets credit for that?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection math looks like it\u2019s just going to get easier for the GOP\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5080313-census-projections-electoral-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hill<\/a>]. \u201cIt\u2019s going to get tougher and tougher for Democrats to win the Electoral College and the White House if present trends hold, new projections from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest. Democratic strongholds like California and New York appear likely to lose population and multiple electoral votes, while GOP-leaning states like Texas and Florida are likely to pick up votes. That would lead to a shift in 2030. Those changes could help expand the map for the GOP, unless Democrats can figure out ways to win Texas, Florida or some other states they lost to President-elect Trump.\u201d And: \u201cTaken altogether, if the estimated new map was in place for 2024, Trump would have won 10 additional electoral votes, while Vice President Harris would\u2019ve won 10 fewer.\u201d \u2022 So the solution is better messaging. Alrighty then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"27.598455598456\">\n<p>\u201cA time for truth and reconciliation\u201d [Peter Thiel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>]. \u201cIn 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump\u2019s election victory was \u201cnot the apocalypse\u201d. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word <em>apok\u00e1lypsis<\/em>, meaning \u2018unveiling\u2019, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025. Trump\u2019s return to the White House augurs the <em>apok\u00e1lypsis<\/em> of the <em>ancien regime<\/em>\u2018s secrets. The new administration\u2019s revelations need not justify vengeance \u2014 reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth.\u201d After a summary of JFK, Epstein, Fauci, debanking cryptoids (one of these is not like the others): \u201cSouth Africa confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit both Trump\u2019s chaotic style and our internet world, which processes and propagates short packets of information. The first Trump administration shied away from declassifications because it still believed in the rightwing deep state of an Oliver Stone movie. This belief has faded.\u201d And: \u201cOur ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler. There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past.\u201d \u2022 Good shot with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Struldbrugg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">struldbrugg<\/a>.\u201d Commentary:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"716\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer.png 500w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loomer-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t read up on Thiel. But from what I have read, I find myself in agreement with Loomer. Which is a little unnerving, to say the least.<\/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>; <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, thump, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n<p>Airborne Transmission<\/p>\n<blockquote wp_automatic_readability=\"4.3053435114504\">\n<p>Almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2022\/09\/how-ashish-jha-rochelle-walensky-newton-ma-protect-their-children-from-covid-but-not-yours.html\">five years after Newton<\/a>, but good anyhow:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.9767441860465\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.1860465116279\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston has installed CO, CO2 and particulate matter sensors in 4436 classrooms to monitor indoor air quality in real time. Measurements are freely available at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTf81QAqOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/qTf81QAqOA<\/a>. A tremendous effort in transparency. Other similar initiatives: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JA1RvPaXQ1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/JA1RvPaXQ1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2iOEV0wCHu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2iOEV0wCHu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LET’S AIR (@nousaerons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nousaerons\/status\/1878871440830890004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"table\"\/><strong>TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody wp_automatic_readability=\"11.353166986564\">\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Wastewater<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.625\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> This week[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 30<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Last week[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#wastewater-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> (until next week):<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"align: left; margin-left: 0px !important; padding: 9px 0 9px 0;\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ww-natl-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6417910447761\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong> Variants<\/strong> [3] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 21<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> <strong>Emergency Room Visits<\/strong>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_select_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/covid-cdc-variants-natl-1-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-ed-natl-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Hospitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.7710843373494\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> New York[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/daily-hospitalization-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State<\/a>, data January 10:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> National [6] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covidnetdashboard\/de\/powerbi\/dashboard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> Janurary 9, 2005:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-ny-hospitalization-nyc-4-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-hospitalizaiton-natl-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Positivity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"2.5507246376812\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> National[7] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walgreens.com\/healthcare-solutions\/covid-19-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walgreens<\/a> January 13:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"> Ohio[8] <a href=\"https:\/\/clevelandcliniclabs.com\/respiratory-virus-surveillance-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Clinic<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-walgreens-positivity-natl-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cleveland-positivity-oh-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285157\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Travelers Data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.6417910447761\">\n<td valign=\"top\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Positivity[9] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 23:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Variants[10] <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#traveler-genomic-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> December 23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-positivity-travelers-1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-variants-travelers-1-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr colspan=\"2\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/td>\n<td\/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\" wp_automatic_readability=\"3.7735849056604\">\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronavirusdisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] <a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/coronadisease2019\/what-you-should-know\/current-situation-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC<\/a> January 4:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-positivity-natl-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-285312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/covid-cdc-deaths-ed-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<td wp_automatic_readability=\"182.75923381557\">\n<p><strong>LEGEND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: gold;\">\u2605<\/span> for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n<p>2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] (CDC) Seeing more red and more orange, but nothing new at major hubs. <\/p>\n<p>[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n<p>[3] (CDC Variants) XEC takes over. That WHO label, \u201cOmmicron,\u201d has done a great job normalizing successive waves of infection.<\/p>\n<p>[4] (ED) A little uptick.<\/p>\n<p>[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Definitely jumped.<\/p>\n<p>[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[8] (Cleveland) Continued upward trend since, well, Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[10] (Travelers: Variants). Positivity is new, but variants have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Deaths low, positivity leveling out.<\/p>\n<p>[12] Deaths low, ED leveling out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no official statistics of interest today.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"boeing\"\/>Manufacturing: \u201cAerCap CEO warns tariffs could delay Boeing cash recovery\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/aercap-ceo-warns-tariffs-could-hinder-boeing-cash-recovery-2025-01-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a>]. \u201cAerCap, the world\u2019s largest aircraft leasing company, said on Monday that potential new trade tariffs floated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could hit supply chains and hinder planemaker Boeing\u2019s (BA.N), opens new tab efforts to restore much-needed cash\u2026 \u2018We\u2019ll have to wait and see \u2026 what\u2019s in the detail. A lot of parts that are supplied to Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer aircraft are common,\u201d [AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly] told Reuters on the sidelines of the Airline Economics conference. \u2018What would you do with an engine that\u2019s partly made in France? Are you going to put a tariff of 20% on that engine? Is that counterproductive?\u2019 Kelly added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Stock Would Benefit from a Breakup, Specialist Says\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/CYUUY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barron\u2019s<\/a>]. \u2018\u201dIt\u2019s time for Boeing \u2018s management to wake up and start creating value,\u2019 says Jim Osman\u2026. Boeing shareholders are long-suffering. Through Friday trading, shares were down almost 50% over the past five years while the S&P 500 was up almost 80%. The reasons for the underperformance have been well documented: catastrophic design decisions, a pandemic, management turnover, questionable capital allocation, and poor production quality.<\/p>\n<p>Osman is campaigning for a full breakup. He wants to see Boeing split into its three main divisions: commercial aerospace, defense, and services.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing: \u201cTroubled Boeing Offers To Assist Nigerian Airlines Secure Aircraft Insurance\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/saharareporters.com\/2025\/01\/13\/troubled-boeing-offers-assist-nigerian-airlines-secure-aircraft-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sahara Reporters<\/a>]. \u201cBoeing International Corporation has expressed its willingness to support Nigerian airlines in securing sufficient aircraft insurance coverage. This assistance will be facilitated through partnerships with financially stable lessors and global financiers. Moore Ibekwe, Boeing\u2019s Sales Director for the Africa Region Commercial Airlines, made this announcement in Dublin, Ireland, at the inaugural meeting of the \u2018Boeing Lessor Forum\u2019, which takes place from January 12 to 15.\u201d \u2022 At least the sales department is in there punching.<\/p>\n<p>Tech: Elon\u2019s mercurial pesonality:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"2.7139037433155\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.7540106951872\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J7JkxdfrAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/J7JkxdfrAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Leavitt \ud83c\udfb2\ud83c\udfae\ud83e\uddd9\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83c\udf08 (@David_Leavitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Leavitt\/status\/1878330584621101111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Something going on here. Perhaps we should invoke the Twenty Fifth Amendment?<\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 25 Extreme Fear (previous close: 26 Fear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/fear-and-greed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN<\/a>]. One week ago: 37 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jan 13 at 1:33:14 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p> Rapture Index: Closes up one on Wild Weather. \u201cThe fires in California are the result of very wild weather\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptureready.com\/rapture-ready-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rapture Ready<\/a>]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189. Current: 181. (Remember that bringing on the Rapture is good.) \u2022 \u201cWild Weather\u201d (#38) as opposed to Climate (#43).<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"zeitgeist\"\/><strong>Zeitgeist Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s team is discussing a trip to survey the L.A. wildfire devastation\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trumps-team-discussing-trip-survey-l-wildfire-devastation-rcna187447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC<\/a>]. \u201cPresident-elect Donald Trump\u2019s team is engaged in conversations about his visiting Los Angeles to view the wildfire damage, two sources familiar with the discussions said. Trump, who has repeatedly criticized local and state officials for their response to the fire, has been invited out by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Rep Judy Chu, also a Democrat, said Sunday on CBS News she intended to invite both Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as well. Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt declined to comment on the trip discussions. It\u2019s unclear whether Trump would go before or after his Jan. 20 inauguration\u2026. On \u2018Fox News Sunday\u2019 this weekend, Vice President-elect JD Vance said he knew Trump \u2018wants to visit California,\u2019 but offered no further details.\u201d\u2022 It\u2019s a trap!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarrow Roads, Deep Canyons: L.A. Firefighters Confront Nature\u2019s Perfect Firetrap\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/HqgeC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]. \u201cIt is here, among the cliffs and crevices of Topanga Canyon, that crews face a real dogfight in some of the most complex firefighting topography in the world. Firefighters\u2019 biggest mission is to protect the property and lives of the roughly 10,000 residents, many whose homes cling to steep terrain off winding, tree-lined streets so narrow that two vehicles can\u2019t pass in places. While small in population, Topanga looms large in Angeleno lore as a getaway for Hollywood stars in the 1920s, and home in the 1960s to rockers Neil Young, Jim Morrison and Linda Ronstadt, along with serial killer Charles Manson and his family. Wedged in the Santa Monica Mountains, the canyon has seen numerous blazes over the years\u2014although none as menacing in the 57 years that Armida Madrid has lived here.\u201d \u2022 Worth a read for the local color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLA\u2019s rich & famous hiring $2,000-an-hour private firefighters to protect million-dollar homes & businesses\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/13276163\/la-wildfires-billionaires-private-firefighters-kim-kardashian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The U.S. Sun<\/a>]. \u201cOne wealthy source said: \u2018This week\u2019s events have shown you can\u2019t trust the city to protect your property.\u2019 The source added: \u2018I have the money, so why not?\u2019 Private firefighters are not uncommon in LA with Kim Kardashian using private crews to save her home in Hidden Hills California in the 2013 wildfires.\u201d \u2022\u00a0And all these lovely people will seek places to live that are \u201cunspoiled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEditorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/01\/12\/editorial-los-angeles-palisades-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>]. \u201cHere in Chicago, historians see a fire in which one-third of people in this city lost their homes and at least 300 died as a unique catalyst for growth and reinvention, although it it is often forgotten that the city got a lot of help from people outside its borders. Within little more than year, a visitor to Chicago could not see many visible signs of the prior destruction, and the roaring city had gained a fierce and lasting reputation for resilience and new opportunity. Once the fires are out and losses mourned, LA will have a similar chance to look hard at the changing environment in which it lives, improve its services with the benefit of bitter experience and build back better. For now, though, we stand with its people through the painful slog of recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe psychological toll of California\u2019s catastrophic fires\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/12\/california-wildfires-loss-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axios<\/a>]. \u201cPeople exposed to California\u2019s deadliest wildfire, the 2018 Camp Fire, showed greater chronic symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/climate\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pclm.0000125#sec020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">research<\/a> published in 2023. \u2018These findings dovetail with significant psychological impacts noted after extreme climate events,\u2019 researchers wrote. \u2018Warming temperatures have been further linked to greater suicide rates.\u2019 Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44220-024-00210-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study from last year<\/a> found that wildfires are associated with increased emergency room visits for anxiety disorders in the western U.S. Sometimes pragmatism comes before grief during a disaster like the urban wildfires, Katzman said. People might first prioritize figuring out what a return to work or school will could like, before processing the loss\u2026. \u2018Solastalgia\u2019 has been used to describe the chronic distress of seeing negative environmental change in one\u2019s home environment.\u201d \u2022 Word of the day: \u201cSolastalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather like Occupy Sandy:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"3.7823129251701\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10.401360544218\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re seeing all the air filters and respirators being handed out for free in LA, remember these resources are only available because covid activists have remained steadfast in advocating for clean air and mask use since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 inky labyrinth \ud83d\udcda\ud83c\udf49 (@InkyLabyrinth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InkyLabyrinth\/status\/1878150100750643328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New bird:<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.6875\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.0625\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Monet, The Magpie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gH0oIzUPAK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/gH0oIzUPAK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Impressions (@impression_ists) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/impression_ists\/status\/1878819025020760356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Old bird (I apologize for X\u2019s miserable cropping algorithm):<\/p>\n<p><center wp_automatic_readability=\"1.6984732824427\"> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.4351145038168\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pieter Bruegel The Elder<br \/>The Hunters in the Snow (detail) 1565 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ama6QstDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2ama6QstDU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marysia (@marysia_cc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marysia_cc\/status\/1878531897153945963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"wired\"\/><strong>News of the Wired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin\u2019s Aesthetics\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/collegetowns.substack.com\/p\/celebrating-the-timeless-allure-of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">College Towns<\/a>]. \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic\u2026. The panels and pages within Tintin are filled with an ephemeral old world that doesn\u2019t really exist anymore (if it ever did). Herg\u00e9 creates a sense of scaled urbanism as well as the naturalistic world in fantastical yet real places. The color palettes and details give it a mood and atmosphere that has universal appeal. Dark-drawn outlines allow the colors to pop off the page, called \u201cEuropean \u2018ligne claire\u2019 style,\u201d according to cartoonist Barry Deutsch. These stills are from comic panels, but they are also works of art with aesthetics immediately recognizable. They give a range of emotions: a new adventure begins in the bustle of a big city, the immensity of a mountain range, the calmness of home.\u201d \u2022 Reminds me a bit of Richard Scarry, who I saw recommend recently for his book on fire-fighting equipment. And as with Babar the Elephant, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a colonial interpretation to be had. But for now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"823\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin.png 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tintin-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/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\/2025\/01\/200pm-water-cooler-1-9-2025.html\">here<\/a>. From TH:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/aloe-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TH writes: \u201cThis is an Aloe Tree growing along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California. (Taken from a sidewalk well above it.)\u201d I am a big fan of depth of field and this image shows why.<\/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. 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Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (\u201cBecause markets\u201d). I don\u2019t much care about the \u201cism\u201d that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don\u2019t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered. <br \/>\n <br \/>\nTo me, the key issue \u2014 and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me \u2014 is the tens of thousands of excess \u201cdeaths from despair,\u201d as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. And that level of suffering and organic damage makes the concerns of identity politics \u2014 even the worthy fight to help the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton\u2019s wars created \u2014 bright shiny objects by comparison. 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