By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

Affected person readers, yesterday was the advanced maneuvering preparatory to journey. In the present day is the lurching and jolting of precise journey, hopefully arriving at a full complement of Water Cooler objects. –lambert

Chook Music of the Day

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1. Theories of Trump’s nomination nethodology.
2. Treasury rumors proceed.
3. RFK Huge Mac flap.

Search for the Helpers

“Underrated methods to alter the world” [Experimental History].

Right here is an exemplary scientific paper:

Through the writer’s childhood, numerous famend authorities (his mom, a number of aunts, and, later, his mother-in-law [personal communication]) knowledgeable him that cracking his knuckles would result in arthritis of the fingers. To check the accuracy of this speculation, the next examine was undertaken.

For 50 years, the writer cracked the knuckles of his left hand a minimum of twice a day, leaving these on the precise as a management. Thus, the knuckles on the left have been cracked a minimum of 36,500 instances, whereas these on the precise cracked hardly ever and spontaneously. On the finish of the 50 years, the palms have been in contrast for the presence of arthritis.

There was no arthritis in both hand, and no obvious variations between the 2 palms.

Individuals typically suppose they will’t do analysis as a result of they don’t have a large magnet or a laser or a closet filled with reagents. However they’ve one thing the skilled scientists don’t have: freedom. The professionals can’t do something that’s too bizarre, takes too lengthy, or would elevate the suspicion of an Institutional Assessment Board. That form of stuff has to occur in a basement or a yard, which is why the “paper’ above is, in truth, a letter to the editor written by a medical physician on a lark.

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My e mail deal with is down by the plant; please ship examples of there (“Helpers” within the topic line). In our more and more determined and fragile neoliberal society, on a regular basis regular incidents and tales of “the communism of on a regular basis life” are what I’m on the lookout for (and never, say, the Crimson Cross in Hawaii, and even the UNWRA in Gaza)

Politics

“So most of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in truth a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

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Trump Transition

““Trump’s cupboard picks are brokers of his contempt, rage and vengeance” [Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian]. “Trump’s cupboard appointments are brokers of his contempt, rage and vengeance. The motive for naming his quack nominees is positioned in his resentments from his sordid first time period for which he pledged retribution…. He’ll obtain vindication by tearing down something he feels was used to restrain his harmful impulses or tried to carry him accountable for his previous crimes, whether or not it’s the army, the justice system or science itself.” • That is what passes for evaluation within the Clintonian wing. I’m so, so uninterested in Democrats psychologizing and infantilizing each human motive (apart from their very own, after all, that are irreduciably nuanced, advanced, and above all Ethical). However suppose they’re proper. Suppose the dominant political determine of the final three Presidential cycles is in, in his innermost being, a tantrum-driven, sociopathic, barely-toilet-trained two-year-old. What does it say concerning the Democrats that that they had eight years to determine cease him — stopping “fascism”_{MR SUBLIMINAL Till it’s time to kiss and make up} and saving “our democracy” _{MR SUBLIMINAL BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!} — and but failed to take action?

“Trump’s casting name as he builds out his administration: TV expertise most well-liked” [Associated Press]. ” There’s a standard trait that President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing as he selects these to serve in his new administration: expertise on tv. Trump loves that ‘central casting’ look, as he likes to name it…. [He’s] working to arrange a extra forceful administration on this time period, and in his eyes, a lot of these individuals occur to intersect with movie star…. The White Home-to-cable information pundit pipeline tends to chop throughout administrations of each events, to some extent. President Joe Biden had three MSNBC contributors on his transition group and his former press secretary went to the community after she left the White Home. Biden, although, seemed to profession diplomats, longtime authorities employees and army leaders for key posts just like the Protection Division.” • You could possibly argue, I suppose, that the social capital intrinsic to movie star offers these appointments a sure autonomy; they will at all times return on cable or safe an “Orange Man Unhealthy”-type e-book deal. After all, this cuts towards the “loyalist” narrative. Readers, what do you suppose?

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“The knives are out over Treasury” [Politico]. “SCOTT BESSENT. KEVIN WARSH. HOWARD LUTNICK. MARC ROWAN. All of the supposed frontrunners for Treasury secretary have one thing in widespread — they’re Wall Road finance guys. That’s bought the populist proper freaking out. Protectionists out and in of President-elect DONALD TRUMP’s interior circle are terrified that not one of the Treasury frontrunners will ship on Trump’s most constant — and doubtlessly disruptive — financial marketing campaign promise: across-the-board tariffs not seen in practically a century, in line with an individual with direct data of inside conversations, in addition to dozens of public statements from populists up to now week. They’re pushing their very own candidate: Trump’s former commerce chief ROBERT LIGHTHIZER. And although he’s extensively seen as an extended shot — if not out of rivalry for Treasury completely — protectionists are going public with their marketing campaign to get him named to essentially the most highly effective financial position within the Cupboard The marketing campaign — and persevering with uncertainty about such a necessary Cupboard job — factors to simmering discontent in Trump’s world concerning the final path of financial coverage: whether or not to ship on excessive, common tariffs, or shrink back for worry that the duties will spook the inventory market.” • That is from the 18th, and so might have been overtaken by occasions by the point you learn this.

“Trump reconsiders Treasury Secretary nomination, might not select pro-crypto” [Binance]. • Think about respiratory a sigh of aid that we’re getting some personal fairness weasel, and never some crypto bro.

“Elon Musk’s endorsement of a Treasury secretary candidate has reportedly rubbed Trump’s individuals the fallacious manner” [Fortune]. “Regardless of the obvious unease of some Trump staffers with Musk’s actions, there isn’t any proof that any rift has shaped between Musk and Trump. Musk remains to be spending a lot of his time at Mar-a-Lago, and traveled with Trump to New York Saturday to attend a UFC struggle. Whoever turns into Treasury secretary, Musk is more likely to work considerably carefully with them as a part of his duties with the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). DOGE will work with the White Home Workplace of Administration and Finances to implement the suggestions of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Musk has stated beforehand he believes it’s potential to chop $2 trillion from the federal funds, although many have been skeptical of this determine.”

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“Sweating RFK Jr. Performs Self-Surgical procedure To Extract Huge Mac From Abdomen” [The Onion]. • The Dems ginned up slightly ethical panic about this the opposite day, however fortunately I can get rid of it with a hyperlink to The Onion: As with a lot else.

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The Case for Matt Gaetz” [Compact Magazine]. “There are two methods to take a look at the corruption that’s rife in Twenty first-century American life. One view is that reform calls for a saint to reproach the depraved…. The second view is that if we should await an immaculate reformer, reform won’t ever come. So we should help even clearly flawed people once they tackle the mandatory work of confronting systemic evils.” This speaks properly of him: “This 12 months, Gaetz took James Poulos and a movie crew from The Blaze on a tour of congressional workplaces whose occupants—together with Republicans—have been violators of Congress’s seldom-enforced guidelines towards insider buying and selling.” And: “Gaetz has been complimentary towards Lina Khan, chairwoman of the Federal Commerce Fee, and the Biden Justice Division’s chief antitrust official, Jonathan Kanter. The New York Submit notes that Google, particularly, is more likely to be a spotlight of antitrust consideration in a Gaetz Division of Justice, which could transfer to interrupt up the tech megalith. The identical story quotes Gaetz referring to Huge Tech corporations in 2021 as ‘the web’s corridor screens’ with a bias towards conservatives. Gaetz has described himself as a ‘libertarian populist,’ and that characterization is mirrored by his stances on civil liberties and social points.” •

How the Gaetz Ethics report might nonetheless come out if the panel blocks it” [Politico]. “Right here’s a breakdown of what might occur if [Ethics Committee] members vote to not launch the [Gaetz] report, and different methods the investigative findings might see the sunshine of day…. Somebody leaks it to the press: Ethics Committee members and employees don’t take the prospect of a leak frivolously, if the panel votes to maintain the report beneath wraps. A part of that’s wanting to guard the credibility of the panel, however members additionally take an oath, pledging: “I cannot disclose, to any individual or entity outdoors the Committee on Ethics, any data obtained in the middle of my service with the Committee, besides as licensed by the Committee or in accordance with its guidelines.”… Utilizing the Home flooring: Some lawmakers are privately theorizing that, ought to the committee block the discharge of the report, a lawmaker might go to the Home or Senate flooring and browse it into the congressional file fairly than leak it to the media…. Sharing it with senators: Even when the Ethics panel doesn’t wish to make the report public, they will vote to share it with the Senate Judiciary Committee forward of potential affirmation hearings…. Sober warning: Employees-driven leaks have occurred earlier than, however sometimes not in a state of affairs with a lot at stake. Along with shedding a job, there are additionally actual issues of political violence if a employees leaker’s title grew to become public.” • Hmmm.

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“What to learn about Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s decide to guide Medicare and Medicaid” [Associated Press]. “Oz had a internet price between $100 million and $315 million, in line with a federal monetary disclosure he filed in 2022, which supplies greenback values in ranges however doesn’t present particular figures.” • Oh.

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“Prosecutors request keep in Trump NY case till 2029 as protection plans movement for dismissal ‘as soon as and for all’” [FOX]. “New York prosecutors are requesting a keep till a minimum of 2029 in New York v. Trump, because the president’s protection attorneys put together to maneuver to dismiss the case completely. Prosecutors wrote a letter to Choose Juan Merchan on Tuesday, who agreed final week to grant a keep on all deadlines related to the conviction proceedings towards Trump within the remaining months earlier than he takes workplace. åMerchan granted the request, which points a keep on all deadlines, together with the Nov. 26 sentencing date, to think about the impact of his election as president. Prosecutors had requested for the pause in proceedings, which they stated would permit them to raised consider the impression of Trump’s new standing as president-elect. ‘On account of the election held on November 5, 2024, Defendant’s inauguration as President will happen on January 20, 2025,’ Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg wrote to Merchan on Tuesday.” And: “Trump’s attorneys have requested that Merchan overturn the responsible verdict, citing america Supreme Court docket’s choice that former presidents have substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts in workplace. Trump’s authorized group argued that sure proof introduced by Bragg and New York prosecutors in the course of the trial shouldn’t have been admitted, as they have been ‘official acts.’”

2024 Submit Mortem

Deploy the Blame Cannons!

“Why Kamala Harris couldn’t persuade an anti-establishment America” [Guardian]. “Because the social gathering of educated data employees, coverage elites and public sector unions, the Democratic social gathering merely is the social gathering of institutional incumbents. And the way do you run towards the institution when you’re the institution. Democrats are thus assured to study all of the fallacious classes from this election. They may focus-group financial insurance policies that enchantment to the working class and excise wokeness from their political messaging. They may attempt to engineer their very own Joe Rogan and uplift candidates that shoot from the hip. However this can all be a model of treating the symptom fairly than the illness. Till the elites within the Democratic social gathering loosen their grip and permit genuine, anti-establishment social gathering factions to come up organically, they’ll stay the social gathering of management and stasis in a world hungry for change.”

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“NBC’s Kornacki: Republicans Obtain Historic Realignment, 25-Level Shift Amongst Decrease-Revenue Voters Since 2012” [RealClearPolitics]. KORNACKI: “Keep in mind, three straight elections Trump’s been the Republican candidate. So pre-Trump voters beneath 30 have been going for the Democrats by 23 factors. Of us with incomes beneath $50,000, 22 factors for the Democrats. Of us with out school levels, 4 factors for the Democrats. That’s pre-Trump. What comes out of this election? Have a look at a few of these shifts. The youth vote, that Democratic margin lower greater than in half. Voters beneath $50,000, now a Republican constituency. Voters with no school diploma, have a look at that shift. Now a core Republican constituency. After which we will speak about race, ethnicity. This will get into that variety I discussed a minute in the past. Verify this out. Once more, pre-Trump versus now. The Black vote nonetheless overwhelmingly Democratic, however that’s a 15-point shift. It was 87 factors for the Democrats, all the way down to 72. How about this? You’ve heard rather a lot about it this week. That is what the numbers seem like. Hispanic voters have been 44 factors Democratic earlier than Donald Trump. Now, principally a toss-up constituency. And Asian Individuals, a 32-point shift there as properly. That’s what’s occurred to the Republican Social gathering since Donald Trump grew to become its commonplace bearer eight years in the past. This has been the motion.”

Spook Nation

“Somebody accessed information stated to include damaging data about Trump AG-nominee Gaetz, lawyer says” [Associated Press]. “An unauthorized individual gained entry to a file containing confidential testimony from girls who’ve made allegations about former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s decide to turn out to be the following legal professional normal, a lawyer stated Tuesday. Attorneys concerned in a civil case introduced by a Gaetz affiliate have been notified this week that an unauthorized individual accessed a file shared between attorneys that included unredacted depositions from a girl who has stated Gaetz had intercourse along with her when she was 17, and a second girl who says she noticed the encounter, in line with legal professional Joel Leppard.” • Appears odd. Submitting this right here for causes I assume are apparent, regardless of the shortage of proof.

Democrats en déshabillé

Syndemics

“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison

Covid Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Normal Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be at liberty to contact me on the deal with given with the crops. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!

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Transmission: H5N1

“Chook flu in Canada might have mutated to turn out to be extra transmissible to people” [Guardian]. “{The teenager} hospitalized with fowl flu in British Columbia, Canada, might have a variation of the virus that has a mutation making it extra transmissible amongst individuals, early knowledge exhibits – a warning of what the virus can do that’s particularly worrisome in international locations such because the US the place some H5N1 instances are usually not being detected…. Preliminary sequencing of the H5N1 variant sickening {the teenager} confirmed a possible mutation on the genomic spot identified to make individuals extra vulnerable to the virus. That would point out that H5N1 has the potential to turn out to be extra like a human virus, fairly than an avian virus, however it is usually not clear but whether or not this modification is significant and extra harmful to individuals, specialists stated. Canadian officers have been conducting blood assessments among the many teen’s contacts, they usually count on outcomes later this week. They’re additionally awaiting the outcomes of different assessments completed over the weekend.” • In the meantime in California:

⚠️Anxious—That is a minimum of the third COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION incidence of H5N1 with none animal contact. Similar with the ICU hospitalized case. That is both human-to-human, or perhaps lengthy distance airborne transmission from animal to human by some means with out direct contact. Worrisome. https://t.co/a0PDCQQrjj

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 19, 2024

Maskstravaganza

Nicely, it’s not like weak individuals congregate in hospitals:

NIH has resumed requiring masking in all affected person care areas and testing for SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, Influenza B, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) on inpatients. Sonoma County additionally requiring masking. However #HICPAC thinks masks are pointless. Make HICPAC make sense! pic.twitter.com/2xbQUBdAdC

— Judy Stone (@DrJudyStone) November 19, 2024

Elite Maleficence

“The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Chook Flu, and It’s Scary” [New York Times]. “Failure to regulate H5N1 amongst American livestock might have world penalties, and this calls for pressing consideration. America has completed little to reassure the world that it has the outbreak contained…. [T]he United States ought to do not forget that the nation the place a pandemic emerges might be accused of not doing sufficient to regulate it. We nonetheless hear how China didn’t do sufficient to cease the Covid-19 pandemic. None of us would desire a new pandemic labeled the ‘American virus,’ as this might be very damaging for america’ popularity and economic system….I perceive that it’s not simple to influence companies, such because the meat and dairy industries, to permit the testing of all of their animals and staffs, and to make that knowledge public rapidly. However I additionally know that in the long run, doing so protects lives, lessens financial injury and creates a safer world. The world can not afford to gamble with this virus, letting it unfold in animals and hoping it by no means sparks a severe outbreak — or crossing our fingers that its results received’t be severe in individuals. Time will inform. I hope we aren’t watching the beginning of a brand new pandemic unfold, with each the American and the worldwide communities burying our heads within the sand fairly than confronting potential hazard.”

“Australian COVID inquiry promotes “let it rip,” denounces public well being measures” [WSWS]. “The report of a authorities commissioned inquiry into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was launched on Tuesday…. The inquiry spanned a 12 months. The report runs to 892 pages. It’s, nonetheless, utterly nugatory from an analytical or scientific standpoint, including nothing to an understanding of pandemics and public well being typically, or the expertise of COVID-19 particularly. As a substitute, the report is a crude promotion of the profit-driven “let it rip” insurance policies that persist to this present day. It’s noteworthy solely as yet one more marker of the assault on public well being and the rights of the inhabitants that this homicidal program has entailed…. With reference to lockdowns and different measures resembling masks mandates, they complain: ‘Effectiveness was inferred from total reported case numbers, however this can be a very restricted strategy to analysis and didn’t reveal which [restrictions] have been efficient and whether or not the stringency settings have been proper.’ These unqualified assertions, denouncing measures that saved lives, are all of the extra hanging, provided that the report notes, ‘Australia would have had between 15 and 46 instances the variety of deaths if it had skilled the identical COVID-related loss of life charges as comparable international locations like Canada and Sweden.’ That’s, however for the measures that the report denounces, tons of of 1000’s, or much more than 1,000,000 individuals would have perished out of a inhabitants of 25 million.” • If these GBD psychos safe a lodgment within the Trump Administration, that is precisely what they’ll do, or attempt to do, right here. And eugencist permits like Zients, Jha, Walensky, and Cohen will do every little thing they will to helkp them. Commentary:

Do now we have any Australians within the readership who want to share their views?

Some kinda loss of life cult, or what?

Extra optimistic than I’m. From the UK:

Might be one thing to this:

Sure, there are individuals who eat brunch. And there are individuals entities who serve brunch.

TABLE 1: Each day Covid Charts

Retail: “Walmart is feeling jolly as the vacation procuring season approaches” [Wall Street Journal Logistics Report]. “The nation’s largest retailer says U.S. comparable gross sales, these from shops and digital channels in operation for a minimum of 12 months, rose a higher-than-expected 5.3% within the newest quarter. The WSJ’s Sarah Nassauer studies that the expansion was propelled by consumers shopping for groceries, residence items and toys, an indication that spending is off to a strong begin heading into the busiest procuring season of the 12 months. Walmart’s revenue elevated on decrease e-commerce supply prices, fewer reductions and better income from promoting. The retailer stated it lower its internet supply value per order within the U.S. by about 40% within the quarter.”

Manufacturing: “Boeing to put off roughly 2,200 Washington employees 5 days earlier than Christmas” [FOX]. “The layoffs are a part of the debt-heavy U.S. planemaker’s plan to chop 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its world workforce, in line with a union official and federally required filings posted on Monday.” • That’ll educate ’em.

In the present day’s Concern & Greed Index: 49 Impartial (earlier shut: 50 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 65 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 20 at 11:09:45 AM ET.

Thanksgiving Pre-Sport Festivities

“Document 80 million Individuals anticipated to journey for Thanksgiving vacation, trade group says” [Reuters]. • We’ll see what the charts seem like afterwards.

Healthcare

“Add 11 years to your life? Science says it’s so simple as a every day stroll” {StudyFinds]. “In what is likely to be one of the best return on funding since Bitcoin’s early days, scientists have found that each hour of strolling might yield as much as six hours of extra life. Not like cryptocurrency, nonetheless, this funding is assured by the legal guidelines of human biology. An thrilling modeling examine reveals that if each American over the age of 40 was as bodily energetic as essentially the most energetic quarter of the inhabitants, they might count on to reside an additional 5 years on common…. Research authors analyzed knowledge from the Nationwide Well being and Dietary Examination Survey (NHANES), specializing in Individuals aged 40 and older who wore exercise screens for a minimum of 4 days. Not like earlier research that relied on members’ reminiscence and honesty about their exercise ranges, these screens supplied goal measurements of each motion all through the day. The outcomes confirmed a hanging ‘diminishing returns‘ impact within the relationship between bodily exercise and longevity. The best advantages have been seen among the many least energetic people: shifting from the bottom exercise quarter to the second-lowest required simply 28.5 minutes of extra strolling per day however might add 6.3 years to life expectancy. Which means each hour of strolling for this group translated to an additional 6.3 hours of life — a formidable return on funding. As individuals grew to become extra energetic, the extra advantages per hour of exercise decreased however remained vital.” • Right here is the examine, which pleasingly confirms my priors. Maybe some form reader can check out the methodology.

Gallery

“What a carve up! Playful, intricate Japanese leaf artwork – in footage” [Guardian]. “Nearly day-after-day for the previous 5 years, the Kanagawa-born artist Lito has drawn a picture on to a leaf – normally a jaunty scene from the animal world involving, say, a biker-dude rabbit or a frog in a telephone field – and carved it out with a scalpel earlier than posting {a photograph} to social media. A painstaking course of, it nonetheless fits Lito’s “propensity to dedicate lengthy hours to detailed work” – a prognosis of ADHD aged 30 was what prompted him to give up his company job and begin carving leaves for a residing. And a residing it’s: he’s bought 300,000 copies of his leaf-art books to this point and reveals his work all through Japan. The mix of playful Studio Ghibli-esque creativeness and exhaustive consideration to element is central to the enchantment.” • For instance:

Class Warfare

Information of the Wired

“Is magnificence pure?” [Aeon]. “Although she would by no means encounter Darwin’s analysis – Austen died in 1817 – her personal work was steeped in the identical scientific and philosophical custom that paved the way in which for his concept of evolution. She wrote in an period obsessive about explaining the pure world; the phrase ‘biology’ burst into utilization in England round 1800. Austen’s acute, nearly medical, consideration to element resembles the model of early British naturalists. In Jane Austen and Charles Darwin (2008), the literature scholar Peter Graham explores parallels between Austen’s sensibility and Darwin’s, arguing that each ‘have been eager observers of the world earlier than them, observers who excelled each in noticing microcosmic particulars and … discerning the cosmic significance of these small particulars.” • Hmm.

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expat2uruguay writes: “I’ve this begonia leaf that I used to be going to attempt to propagate utilizing a way I’ve solely examine. The method requires pinning down the injured components of the leaf or maybe overlaying them with rocks, so using metallic jacks is my very own innovation right here.” Can readers touch upon this method?

Sort readers, the inventory of plant footage remains to be too scant for consolation… .

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