By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Chicken Tune of the Day
Booted Warbler, Ratchaburi, Thailand. Picked from amongst recordings from Scotland and India. Fairly a spread!
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Politics
“However what’s authorities itself, however the best of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“That they had discovered nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
“When the going will get bizarre, the bizarre flip professional.” –Hunter Thompson
Roe v. Wade
“Supreme Court docket overturns constitutional proper to abortion” [SCOTUSblog]. “The Supreme Court docket on Friday eradicated the constitutional proper to acquire an abortion, casting apart 49 years of precedent that started with Roe v. Wade. The choice by Justice Samuel Alito will set off a seismic shift in reproductive rights throughout america. It should permit states to ban abortion, and consultants count on about half the states to take action. In some of the anticipated rulings in a long time, the courtroom overturned Roe, which first declared a constitutional proper to abortion in 1973, and Deliberate Parenthood v. Casey, which re-affirmed that proper in 1992. The choice adopted the leak in early Could of a draft opinion displaying {that a} majority of the justices had been privately poised to take that step. On Friday, they made it official. The vote to overturn Roe was 5-4. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito’s opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t be part of the opinion. He agreed with the bulk that the Mississippi abortion restriction at subject within the case ought to be upheld, however in a separate opinion, he argued that the courtroom mustn’t have overturned Roe.” • Right here is the opinion.
“Supreme Court docket’s Abortion Ruling Places States in Highlight” [Wall Street Journal]. “By eliminating a constitutional proper to an abortion, the excessive courtroom’s ruling returns the difficulty to the states, and about half of them, principally led by Republicans, have been poised to ban many or most abortions if Roe was wiped away. Different Democrat-led states are shifting to guard entry to the process, in some instances getting ready for guests from states the place abortion will likely be unavailable. And in politically various states with divided authorities, clashes over the trail ahead on abortion coverage might proceed for years. ‘That is going to place abortion towards the middle of our politics for the foreseeable future,’ stated Steven Greene, a political-science professor at North Carolina State College. Advocates on each side of the difficulty stated that the ruling would place extra concentrate on state and native elections, as a result of governors, state lawmakers and attorneys common will maintain new energy to enact and implement a broader array of abortion insurance policies. Meaning these contests might see extra funding and assist from nationwide teams and donors.”
Thomas, in his concurring opinion, says the quiet half out loud. “Substantive due course of” is subsequent:
In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas says the courtroom ought to rethink rulings that shield contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage. pic.twitter.com/zcQNko6NVR
— Matt Ford (@fordm) June 24, 2022
(Oddly, Loving v. Virginia just isn’t on Thomas’s listing; “a little personal privilege carve-out.“) Commentary:
Any D&D participant can inform you the distinction between substantive due course of and procedural due course of. And why the latter, whereas nice for laughs within the weekly gaming session, is a horrible method to order a society.
— Silentsword 💞💍💞 (@Cinderforgsword) June 24, 2022
Can a D&D participant within the readership unpack this?
Flaccid Democrat response (1):
In the present day, the Supreme Court docket not solely reversed practically 50 years of precedent, it relegated essentially the most intensely private determination somebody could make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the important freedoms of thousands and thousands of Individuals.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 24, 2022
When counterpoising the rhetoric of ethical claims, I feel “abortion is homicide” vs. “intensely private” wins simply. As we see.
Flaccid Democrat response (2):
Simply requested Whip Clyburn in regards to the Dobbs determination: “It’s a bit of anticlimactic, I feel all of us anticipated this. And I am hopeful, you realize I’ve to learn the choice to see precisely the extent to which we are able to transfer legislatively to answer it.”
— Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) June 24, 2022
Flaccid Democrat response (3):
I’ll give him this: No less than when McClellan half-heartedly pretended to battle these folks for a coupla years, he didn’t ship out a fundraising telegram each time he obtained his ass kicked. pic.twitter.com/k7J6DzqHJT
— Civil Conflict Humor (@CivilWarHumor) June 24, 2022
Too dangerous we don’t have a Democrat Lincoln to fireside some generals ’til we get a Grant.
Flaccid Democrat response (4):
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of many few congressional Democrats who has steadily opposed abortion rights, criticized two conservative justices after the Supreme Court docket determination overruling Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/yBGN8w9B8X pic.twitter.com/Dr8oa8OLuh
— The New York Instances (@nytimes) June 24, 2022
So why not nuke the filbuster, have each Democrat homes codify Roe v. Wade into legislation — and substantive due course of whereas we’re at it — and put a invoice on Biden’s desk for him to signal? How about it, President Manchin?
Failure has many mother and father. Right here’s one:
Thanks particularly to RBG as we speak for making this potential
— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 24, 2022
(One of many happier by-products of this actually ugly determination could also be a last burial of bourgeios feminism (+ its Democrat faction (+ that portion of the NGO advanced)), which merely didn’t ship on defending a medical process they rightly considered as important.)
“Abortion in America — the street to rolling again Roe vs Wade” [Lyz Lenz, Financial Times]. Rising up within the Christian proper: “None of my siblings consider what we had been taught. We’ve all grown up. Only a few even go to church. A few of my sisters have been victims of abuse and assault. Some have had youngsters, obtained divorced, confronted poverty and loss. One sister, after a devastating automobile accident, needed to declare chapter at 18 within the face of overwhelming medical payments. Some are queer. Some are single moms. Anti-abortion rhetoric solely works if you’re by no means poor, by no means a sufferer, by no means with out medical insurance, have by no means discovered your self bleeding in a dorm room, not sure how one can identify what occurred to you however afraid you’ll be pregnant and lose every part you’ve fought so arduous for, that factor girls so not often get — freedom. Anti-abortion rhetoric solely works in the event you don’t know that your sister has a medical situation that would imply dying if she will get pregnant. Anti-abortion rhetoric solely works in the event you’ve by no means seen your good friend get well from a violent beating by the hands of her boyfriend. By no means labored at a girls’s shelter and seen the wives of pastors are available in sobbing, secretly on contraception, as a result of they can’t afford to have one other little one. So, how did I, the indoctrinated daughter of the American conservative proper, develop as much as champion the very trigger I had been informed was evil? Easy: I lived life as an American lady.” • Effectively value a learn.
Capitol Seizure
“The Jan. 6 Hearings Have Been So A lot Higher Than I Anticipated” [Michelle Goldberg, New York Times]. “With Trump, nevertheless, the query has by no means been whether or not he’s dedicated outrageous misdeeds, however whether or not these misdeeds could be made to matter. Over and over, the reply to that query has been no. It’d nonetheless be no. However the hearings are having extra of an affect than I anticipated. The choice by the Home minority chief, Kevin McCarthy, to maintain pro-Trump Republicans off the Jan. 6 committee has eradicated the back-and-forth bloviating that usually plague congressional inquiries, permitting investigators to current their findings with the narrative cohesion of a great true-crime collection.” That is necessary: “For some, the hearings are doing greater than that. Dustin Stockton helped arrange the pro-Trump bus tour that culminated within the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse in entrance of the White Home. Politico as soon as referred to as him and his fiancée, Jennifer Lawrence, the ‘Bonnie and Clyde of MAGA world.’ On Tuesday, after a listening to that included testimony by Rusty Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona Home, and the Georgia election staff Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, Stockton tweeted, ‘This has been essentially the most impactful of the January sixth Committee hearings. Embarrassed that I used to be fooled by the Fulton County ‘suitcases of ballots’ hoax.’”
“Excessive drama as Jan. 6 listening to particulars Trump’s effort to deprave Justice Division” [ABC]. “Thursday’s listening to of the Jan. 6 committee centered on the strain then-President Donald Trump and his allies placed on the Justice Division to assist overturn the 2020 election.” • On the Constitutional degree, I’m not aghast at this. There was an unlimited scandal in 2006 when Bush the Youthful fired a bunch of United States attorneys, however they’re political appointees ffs; they “serve on the pleasure of the President.” On the pragmatic degree, the sample is that Trump tries to get this or that particular person to do that or that. The particular person refuses. Trump drops it, and strikes alongside. As a matter of legislation, I don’t know how one can body this. However an assault on the Winter Palace this isn’t. Extra: “Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., closed by previewing the main focus of hearings to come back in July, calling the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol Trump’s of stopping the switch of energy’ if he couldn’t get away with a ‘political coup.’” What the heck is a “political coup”? A norms violation? Extra: “‘We’re going to present how Donald Trump tapped into the specter of violence, how he summoned a mob to Washington and the way — after corruption and political strain did not maintain Donald Trump in workplace — violence grew to become the final possibility,’ he stated.” • Effectively, I’m glad finally we’ve a idea of the case in regards to the relation between the Capitol seizure and the remainder of Trump’s efforts, as a result of I’ve been asking for that for a while. However as of now, I’m not shopping for it. If the rioters managed to cease the depend, the Home strikes the depend elsewhere and holds it later. How does that not occur?
“Ron Johnson now says he helped coordinate effort to move false elector slates to Pence, however his new rationalization drew a fast rebuke” [USA Today]. “After initially claiming to be ‘principally unaware’ of an effort by his workers to get faux presidential elector paperwork to Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson stated Thursday he coordinated with a Wisconsin lawyer to move alongside such data and alleged a Pennsylvania congressman introduced slates of pretend electors to his workplace — a declare that was instantly disputed. Proof offered this week by the U.S. Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol confirmed Johnson’s chief of workers tried to ship the 2 states’ lists of pretend presidential electors for former President Donald Trump to Pence on the morning of the U.S. Capitol riot however was rebuffed by Pence’s aide. Johnson initially informed reporters this week he didn’t know the place the paperwork got here from and that his workers sought to ahead it to Pence. However he stated in a Thursday interview on WIBA-AM that he had since found the paperwork got here from Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, and acknowledged he coordinated with Dane County lawyer Jim Troupis and his chief of workers by textual content message that morning to get to Pence a doc Troupis described as concerning ‘Wisconsin electors.’ Kelly’s workplace instantly pushed again on Johnson’s declare, saying: “Senator Johnson’s statements about Consultant Kelly are obviously false.’ ‘Mr. Kelly has not spoken to Sen. Johnson for the higher a part of a decade, and he has no data of the claims Mr. Johnson is making associated to the 2020 election.’”
Biden Administration
“Harris meets Democratic attorneys common as White Home gears up for abortion ruling” [Reuters]. “U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met a bunch of seven Democratic attorneys common on Thursday to debate the protection to a serious ruling that would dramatically curtail abortion rights within the nation…. ‘We’ll begin preliminary discussions about how state attorneys common have energy, could have the facility on the very least to subject steering to make sure that folks of their state know their rights, that they’ve the facility to evaluate and doubtlessly problem the constitutionality of legal guidelines which might be being handed of their state,’ Harris stated.” • Oh. In the meantime:
Numerous indirect references to “important work forward” and that “we’re all on this collectively”
— Becca Andrews (@kbeccaandrews) June 22, 2022
Might it’s — hear me out — that we’re not “all on this collectively”?
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PA: Oops:
Dr. Oz has gotten the identify of his hometown mistaken in his official assertion of candidacy https://t.co/jF1WfOMVH9
— David Freedlander (@freedlander) June 13, 2022
PA:
Fetterman owned Oz by way of quote tweet so arduous that Oz needed to delete. pic.twitter.com/EZOisvJVFB
— Michael Whitney (@michaelwhitney) June 17, 2022
Fetterman’s marketing campaign is nice on the Twitter. I don’t assume anyone ever gained a marketing campaign there, although.
WY: “Cheney urging Wyoming Democrats to change events to vote for her in major” [The Hill]. “Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is trying to recruit registered Democrats to change their social gathering affiliation to be able to vote for her in Wyoming’s Aug. 16 major. Her marketing campaign web site presents directions for the way voters can change their social gathering affiliation to be able to vote within the Republican major and even directs them to a Wyoming voter registration change type. The New York Instances additionally reported on Thursday that Cheney’s marketing campaign has been sending out mailers to Wyoming Democratic voters with details about voting within the Republican major. Wyoming permits voters to alter their social gathering affiliations by mail as much as 14 days earlier than the first. Voters also can swap their social gathering affiliation on the polls. Cheney is dealing with a hotly contested major in August in opposition to Republican Harriet Hageman. Former President Donald Trump endorsed Hageman as a part of his effort to oust Cheney for her vote final yr to question him for his position within the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol.” • Merger of liberal Democrats and By no means Trump Republicans continues apace. One thinks of scorpions mating.
Democrats en Déshabillé
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated publish, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, actually, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working components of the Get together reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Get together (ka-ching, however not completely) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Web? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence neighborhood.
Observe, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
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“The Gerontocracy of the Democratic Get together Doesn’t Perceive That We’re on the Brink” [Jamelle Bouie, New York Times]. “I’m reminded of the historian Jefferson Cowie’s argument in regards to the New Deal’s relationship to the American political order. In ‘The Nice Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics,’ Cowie argues for an interpretation of america within the twentieth century that treats the New Deal period, from the administration of Franklin Roosevelt to the Seventies, as a ‘sustained deviation from among the predominant contours of American political follow, financial construction, and cultural outlook.’ The Nice Melancholy and World Conflict II could have ‘compelled clear realignments of American politics and sophistication relations,’ Cowie writes, ‘however these modifications had been much less the linear triumph of the welfare state than the product of very particular, and short-lived, historic circumstances.’ If that is true — if the New Deal was the product of extremely contingent circumstances unlikely to be repeated both now or sooner or later — then the problem for these dedicated to the notion of a authorities that protects and expands the collective financial rights of the American folks is to forge a brand new imaginative and prescient for what that is perhaps. Cowie writes, I feel you may apply an analogous ‘nice exception’ evaluation to the a long time of institutional stability and orderly partisan competitors that formed the present technology of Democratic leaders, together with the president and plenty of of his closest allies. They got here into nationwide politics in an age of bipartisan consensus and centrist policymaking, at a time when the events and their coalitions had been much less ideological and extra geographically diversified. However this, too, was a historic aberration, the results of political and social dynamics — such because the broad prosperity of the commercial financial order at residence — that had been already properly in decline by the point that Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein and others first took workplace. American politics since then has reverted to an earlier state of heightened division, partisanship and fierce electoral competitors. Even the authoritarianism on show within the Republican Get together has antecedents within the conduct of Southern political elites on the finish of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth. Tens of millions of Democratic voters can see and really feel that American politics has modified in profound methods since no less than the Nineties, and so they need their leaders to behave, and react, accordingly.” • Effectively value a learn, amazingly for the Instances Op-Ed part.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“How Elites Misinterpret Public Opinion” [Politico]. “Most of our theories of politics in democracies emphasize this notion that there’s public opinion: Our political leaders are taking note of public opinion, and so they’re forming coverage because of this. However one factor that these elite experiments are actually good at displaying is that oftentimes elites are literally misinformed about what the general public desires — that elites are basically misreading the room. So within the context of American politics, there are experiments the place you go to state legislators, and also you inform them extra about what their constituents really take into consideration given points, and also you see if it impacts their political conduct. Equally, in a international coverage context, there are researchers who’ve executed plenty of nice research the place they appropriate misperceptions about what the general public desires and see how that impacts elite decision-making. There are a bunch of regularities that people doing this type of analysis have seen. For instance, the general public is more likely to consider that international warming exists, that local weather change is actual and that it’s being attributable to human beings than elites assume the general public believes. Equally, elites are likely to have this assumption that the general public is rather more isolationist in international coverage than the general public really is.” • Jogs my memory of this morning’s hyperlink: Energy causes mind injury.
#COVID19
I’m however a humble tape-watcher, and I’m perplexed in regards to the present state of play. Case information is displaying the fiddling-and-diddling conduct attribute of a peak. Nonetheless, nothing I hear in anecdotal case information tells me there’s any aid. Hospitalization information (trailing) is easing (and so the hospital-centric public well being institution in all probability thinks Covid is finished). Positivity information (main) has been fiddling and diddling because it too does at peaks. Then once more, waste-water information (main) is barely downThe wild card is variants BA.4/5 (and I assumed we had been purported to be giving names to those issues). All of the variant sources I’ve say BA.4/5 are up, however they differ as to how a lot and the place, and the info is 2 weeks behind (hat tip, CDC; who might have recognized we’d want to trace variant information?). I’m reminded of the “stairstep” (see the Case depend chart beneath: I muttered about this on the time) that marked the Delta/Omicron transition, simply earlier than Omicron’s wonderful take-off. Maybe a BA.4/5 transition will exhibit the identical conduct. OTOH, I could possibly be projecting patterns into clouds.
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• Maskstravaganza: Medical professionals who don’t masks up, a thread:
Can we discuss medical professionals refusing to deal with sufferers until they expose themselves to COVID? As a self-regulated occupation, how has drugs accepted this? How is that this not being sanctioned as unethical? How is that this already normalized? 1/x
— Mekki MacAulay, PEng, PhD (he/they) (@mekki) June 23, 2022
• Maskstravaganza: And that’s an order:
There goes my excuse for by no means doing cardio pic.twitter.com/4LCbmxlLcU
— BobinBKK (@BobinBKK7) June 24, 2022
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In the event you missed it, right here’s a publish on my queasiness with CDC numbers, particularly case depend, which I (nonetheless) think about most necessary, regardless of what Walensky’s psychos at CDC who invented “neighborhood ranges” assume. However these are the numbers we’ve.
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I can not discover a case depend chart that integrates regional and nationwide subtotals, so we’re that a lot stupider. I assumed the New York Instances had the nicest information presentationL
Case depend for america:
The totals are or much less degree, however beneath the hood the BA.4/5 are making up a larger and larger proportion of instances. Keep in mind that instances are undercounted, one supply saying by an element of six, Gottlieb pondering we solely decide up one in seven or eight.) Therefore, I take the case depend and multiply it by six to approximate the true degree of instances, and draw the DNC-blue “Biden Line” at that time. Yesterday, the depend was ~ 97,000. In the present day, it’s 99,600, and 99,600 * 6 = a Biden line at 597,600. No less than we’ve affirmation that the extraordinary mass of case anecdotes had a foundation in actuality. (Keep in mind these information factors are weekly averages, so each day fluctuations are smoothed out.) The black “Fauci Line” is a counter to triumphalism, because it compares present ranges to previous crises.
From the Walgreen’s check positivity tracker:
0.7%. (I’m leaving the company emblem on as a slap to and test on the goons at CDC.)
Wastewater information, regional (Biobot Analytics), June 22:
Wastewater information (CDC), June 4 – June 18:
CDC’s wastewater chart is down once more.
Variant information, regional (Biobot), June 8:
Old-fashioned in comparison with Walgreens (beneath) however nonetheless displaying doubling conduct.
NOT UPDATED Variant information, nationwide (Walgreens), June 15:
In 18 days, BA.4/5 has gone from 18 days, 9.66 to twenty-eight.47 (and this isn’t in response to some sorta mannequin, like CDC’s NowCast, which supplies 35%). Good doubling conduct, implying BA.4/5 ought to be fortunately dominant simply in time for the journey weekend of July 4, good job everybody.
NOT UPDATED Variant information, nationwide (CDC), June 4:
Lambert right here: It’s past irritating how sluggish the variant information is.
From CDC Neighborhood Profile Reviews (PDFs), “Speedy Riser” counties:
All the pieces higher apart from some new crimson flecks within the decrease Mississippi.
The earlier launch:
Here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to community transmission. This is the map CDC wants only hospitals to look at, not you:
West Coast, and Midwest are all crimson. Increasingly orange (“substantial”) on the East Coast, with some yellow breaking out. Nice Plains speckled with yellow and blue.
Hospitalization (CDC Neighborhood Profile):
Very risky.
Demise charge (Our World in Information):
Complete: 1,040,236 1,039,771. I’ve added an anti-triumphalist Fauci Line.
Stats Watch
Shopper Sentiment: “United States Michigan Shopper Sentiment” [Trading Economics]. “The College of Michigan client sentiment was downwardly revised to a document low of fifty.0 in June of 2022, from a preliminary studying of fifty.2. The present financial circumstances subindex sank to an all-time low of 53.8 (vs. 63.3 in Could), and the expectations gauge plunged to 47.5. About 79% of customers anticipated dangerous instances within the yr forward for enterprise circumstances, the best since 2009. Inflation expectations for the yr forward stood at 5.4%, little modified from a preliminary studying or the previous 4 months.”
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The Bezzle: “$100 million value of crypto has been stolen in one other main hack” [CNBC]. “Hackers have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from Horizon, a so-called blockchain bridge, within the newest main heist on the earth of decentralized finance…. Blockchain bridges play an enormous position within the DeFi house, providing customers a method of transferring their property from one blockchain to a different. In Horizon’s case, customers can ship tokens from the Ethereum community to Binance Sensible Chain. Concord stated the assault didn’t have an effect on a separate bridge for bitcoin. Like different sides of DeFi, which goals to rebuild conventional monetary companies like loans and investments on the blockchain, bridges have grow to be a chief goal for hackers as a consequence of vulnerabilities of their underlying code. Bridges ‘preserve giant shops of liquidity,’ making them a ‘tempting goal for hackers,’ in response to Jess Symington, analysis lead at blockchain evaluation agency Elliptic. ‘To ensure that people to make use of bridges to maneuver their funds, property are locked on one blockchain and unlocked, or minted, on one other,’ Symington stated. ‘Consequently, these companies maintain giant volumes of cryptoassets.’ Concord has not revealed precisely how the funds had been stolen. Nonetheless, one investor had raised considerations in regards to the safety of its Horizon bridge way back to April.” • Hmm. Does make you marvel about collusion between the Founders of DeFi corporations and the hackers. Possibly they cut up the take, and the marks are the one losers?
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In the present day’s Worry & Greed Index: 27 Worry (earlier shut: 22 Excessive Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 14 (Excessive Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jun 24 at 1:21 PM EDT.
Division of Feline Felicity
Now do baths:
I do know I’m late to the social gathering on this one however in case you, like me, missed it the primary time … pic.twitter.com/DjbL4PoDr5
— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) June 23, 2022
Groves of Academe
Wait. I assumed this was a parody account:
Because it seems the faculty reorganization didn’t get monetary savings after we added new affiliate and assistant deans. We’ll want to chop division budgets to pay for the brand new and rising admin prices.
— Affiliate Deans (@ass_deans) June 24, 2022
Decline of the West Watch
One other historic aberration:
We’re not prepared (and by we, I embody me) to simply accept that informal, dependable enterprise or air journey is over. It is not coming again. It will take a while to simply accept. We’re solely at stage 1 or 2 (denial, anger) or at most 3 (bargaining w airways on Twitter) of Kübler-Ross
— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) June 24, 2022
And:
This particular person @davidlparsons and I went to the identical highschool however at diffent instances & don’t know one another but IRL. However out college had no lavatory doorways or cleaning soap or sizzling water—and possibly we are able to see airline actuality extra simply than center/higher class ppl who can’t settle for it but. https://t.co/0BJb4AHYtp
— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) June 24, 2022
Declining client expertise has been happening for a while (Yves dubbed it “crapification”) however Covid is accelerating the method.
Class Warfare
“Artificial Opioids Are an All the pieces Drawback” [RAND]. “The Fee on Combating Artificial Opioid Trafficking. The fee was created by Congress to look at the specter of artificial opioids and devise a strategic strategy to countering the unlawful circulation of those medicine into america…. The fee got here up with 78 suggestions throughout 5 pillars for how one can handle the disaster from each side of this supply-and-demand equation. These vary from cracking down on cash laundering by the legal organizations that manufacture and smuggle artificial opioids to exploring harm-reduction efforts that purpose to mitigate the injury related to substance use. The suggestions additionally embody actions that would, if enacted, yield complete and sustainable outcomes, similar to elevating the director of the Workplace of Nationwide Drug Management Coverage to a cabinet-level place and enhancing the analysis and evaluation of ongoing drug market traits.” • So long as there may be despair, there will likely be demand.
Information of the Wired
The datasaurus:
Anscombe’s Quartet, the Datasaurus and the Datasaurus Dozen or why it may be troublesome to display the significance of information visualization, why charts will not be merely “fairly photos” and why it is at all times higher to plot your information [read more: https://t.co/F2YujomBJY] pic.twitter.com/SvOOfB6iBx
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 22, 2022
Yikes:
simply discovered that right here in Kentucky we’ve a museum of ventriloquist dummies. when ventriloquists die they donate their dummies to what’s undoubtedly the world’s most haunted place pic.twitter.com/F17lQRNngv
— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) June 23, 2022
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