By Lambert Strether of Corrente.

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1. Blame cannons thunder after Kamala marketing campaign group podcast.
2. Boeing supply, layoff woes.

Search for the Helpers

And:

A wonderful instance of Graeber’s “the communism of on a regular basis life.”

My e-mail tackle 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 searching 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 the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

2024 Publish Mortem

Who did this:

Vice President @KamalaHarris‘ message to supporters. pic.twitter.com/x5xMUGTtkz

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) November 26, 2024

Sound up, undoubtedly. This body:

As readers know, I oppose distant analysis. However I’ve gotta say… If I have been in a bar, and caught a glimpse of that face throughout the room, I’d suppose the bartender hadn’t been retaining observe. Commentary:

The Kamala Harris video is pulled from a grassroots occasion she did – I’m unsure amplifying it’s the proper transfer. Some messages are simply on your supporters.

— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) November 27, 2024

Andrew Yang looks as if a pleasant particular person, but when the concept was to ensure Kamala by no means rean once more, amplifying this video was precisely the precise transfer.

4 days earlier:

Thanks, @KamalaHarris.

📸: @EBONY pic.twitter.com/0Oo4hWQDZX

— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) November 22, 2024

Oh yeah.

Deploy the Blame Cannons!

“Downfall of The Democrats | The Reality About The 2024 Election” (video) ShoeOnHead, YouTube]. A number of readers have posted on this “Demödämmerung”*-themed video, so right here it’s. NOTE * I like this umlauts, so I’m retaining them, pedants begöne).

High quality use of anaphora!

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Realized nothing, forgotten nothing:

When you’ve got 90 minutes and wish to be taught in regards to the DC swamp scumbags who run campaigns, watch this PodSave interview with the highest 4 Kamala consultants.

All self-congratulatory. Not one admission of error. Infinite excuses for his or her $1 billion failure:https://t.co/PbLsZcsjIw

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 27, 2024

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The #Resistance

Not “resistance” per se, however the identical individuals utilizing the identical ways:

“The Democrats’ Soiled Tips Playbook?” [Matt Taibbi, Racket News]. “The newly launched court docket docs bear out the truth that there was deep concern throughout the blue activist world in regards to the third-party run. A memo despatched from political strategist Lucy Caldwell to Dmitri Mehlhorn, aide to billionaire donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, described No Labels as a ‘looming forest hearth’ that will be a ‘nuclear grade menace’ if it nominated a candidate and reached a ‘dwell marketing campaign setting.’ To forestall that, Caldwell proposed a protracted marketing campaign of ‘model destruction,’ utilizing ‘managed burns’ to place the hearth out lengthy earlier than the election. As Lincoln Mission co-founder Rick Wilson put it much less subtly in a tweeted video final April, No Labels wanted to be ‘burned to the fucking floor politically.’” And after an 80-minute convention name between Democratic Get together-aligned activist teams, “former Emily’s Listing chief Emily Kane, now of Third Means, wrote a letter after the dialogue reported on by Semafor, summing up the conclusions of what she known as, within the topic line, the ‘Anti-No-Labels Coalition assembly.’ Notably acknowledging they have been certainly ‘working collectively as a broad coalition’ to ‘struggle the anti-democratic operation that’s No Labels,; it added with out irony that this struggle for democracy must also embody ‘deterring different third celebration presidential efforts.’” • Politics ain’t beanbag. However simply don’t name yourselves Democrats, uppercase or lowercase D.

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 Sources, 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 Basic Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).

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Sources, United States (Native): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reviews); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d’Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (wastewater); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).

Sources, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).

Sources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).

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Keep secure on the market!

Elite Maleficence

Every little thing’s going in response to plan:

TABLE 1: Each day Covid Charts

GDP: “United States GDP Development Charge” [Trading Economics]. “The US financial system expanded an annualized 2.8% in Q3 2024, the identical as within the advance estimate, in comparison with 3% in Q2. Private spending elevated on the quickest tempo since Q1 2023 though it was revised barely decrease from the advance estimate (3.5% vs 3.7%). It was boosted by a 5.6% surge in consumption of products (vs 6% within the advance estimate) and a strong spending on providers (2.6%, the identical as within the advance estimate). Authorities consumption development was unrevised at 5%.”

Manufacturing: “‘Expansionist’ Emirates unveils first A350 and waits on arrival of longer-range model” [FlightGlobal]. “Philippe Mhun, Airbus government vice-president for programmes and providers, declines to say what number of A350s it can hand over to Emirates subsequent 12 months, however says the provider will account for a “giant half” of 2025’s output – someplace within the area of 25-30%…. Clark says the provider stays ‘expansionist’ however requires extra capability to satisfy its objectives. ‘We’re a annoyed entity as a result of we want airplanes and we want them tomorrow.’ Had Boeing managed to maintain to the unique timeline for the 777X ‘we’d have had 85 777Xs by now’, says [Emirates president Sir Tim Clark]. Boeing’s newest forecast is for 777X deliveries to begin in 2026, though with Emirates third in line to obtain the twinjet, its deliveries are more likely to be in direction of the again finish of the 12 months at greatest.”

Manufacturing: “Laid-off Boeing staff fear for themselves, and the corporate that reduce them” [Seattle Times]. “Layoff notices got here within the type of telephone calls, 10-minute calendar holds and scripted conversations with managers. One employee left with a gifted bottle of whiskey. One other wasn’t even allowed to maintain the cardboard field they’d used to gather their belongings. Some staff had ready for the information; Boeing executives had spent weeks speaking about decreasing inefficiencies and specializing in the core components of the struggling enterprise. Others have been blindsided, counting on years of constructive opinions and, in some circumstances, assurances their jobs have been secure…. [The Everett-based worker] mentioned he can’t assist however really feel that ‘there’s not a lot runway’ left for the corporate. ‘There’s a degree of care and a degree of information that simply gained’t be there.’”

Manufacturing: “FAA Says No Speedy Repair Wanted For Boeing 737 MAX Engine Smoke In Cabin After Fowl Strike Incidents” [Simple Flying]. “The FAA’s Workplace of Accident Investigation and Prevention advisable software program adjustments to the engine’s bleed air system’s response to a hen strike. The workplace’s suggestion learn that the required design change would detect the rapid impulse of a hen strike or fan blade loss occasion and robotically shut the affected engine’s Strain Regulated Shutoff Valves (PRSOV) or journey the related air-con pack.” • Extra on the leaked memo right here.

Manufacturing: “Life is healthier with out Boeing, airline government says” [Quartz]. “Boeing’s ongoing struggles have disrupted airways racing to interchange ageing fleets worldwide, however easyJet has prevented each these troubles and the engine points plaguing some Airbus operators. In an interview with Bloomberg Tv, Chief Government Johan Lundgren expressed thanks that he had Airbus planes with CFM Worldwide engines…. [Some] airline executives, like United Airways Chief Government Scott Kirby, have publicly known as for a brand new competitor to displace the worldwide Airbus-Boeing planemaking duopoly.” • Too dangerous about Bombardier. Embraer? China?

Tech: “Drake takes Kendrick Lamar rap feud to US courts” [Yahoo News]. “Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which accused Drake of getting relationships with underage ladies, loved big industrial and demanding acclaim, exceeding 900 million performs on streaming platform Spotify and incomes a number of Grammy nominations, together with track of the 12 months. However within the first of two court docket filings this week, Drake on Monday accused Common Music Group (UMG), which distributed the track, of charging Spotify unusually low costs to license the observe, in return for the streamer extensively recommending the observe to its subscribers. Based on a court docket doc filed in New York, Drake additionally accused UMG of utilizing automated laptop ‘bots’ to artificially inflate the supposed variety of occasions the track has been streamed on Spotify.”

Statistics: Talking of GDP:

Right this moment’s Worry & Greed Index: 64 Greed (earlier shut: 64 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 49 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Nov 27 at 2:10:45 PM ET.

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Zeitgeist Watch

Class Warfare

No marvel she left the nation:

One thing huge coming down the pike?

Information of the Wired

“Scale-invariant topology and bursty branching of evolutionary bushes emerge from area of interest development” [PNAS]. You’ll like this, if that is the kind of factor you want. The closing paragraph: “Our outcomes present that area of interest development is greater than a suggestions between evolutionary and ecological processes arising when their timescales will not be extensively separated. Area of interest development not solely results in a perturbation within the evolutionary trajectories of all elements of an ecosystem, but additionally creates an indelible footprint on the evolutionary course of that can not be eradicated, even for very lengthy occasions. These reminiscence results manifest themselves by the anomalous scaling legal guidelines that characterize noticed phylogenetic bushes.” • What intrigued me was a sentence within the Summary: “Phylogenetic bushes describe each the evolutionary course of and neighborhood range,” however apparently “neighborhood” is just not utilized in a sociological sense.

Dad.

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