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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Fowl Music of the Day
American Robin, Audrey Carroll Audubon Sanctuary, Frederick, Maryland, United States. “Daybreak tune.”
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are the truth is a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
The Constitutional Order
“Trump faces one other 14th Modification candidacy problem, this time in Minnesota” [CNN]. “The brand new Minnesota lawsuit was filed in state courtroom by Free Speech For Individuals, one week after one other group initiated the same problem in Colorado.” NGOs doing yeoman work. Extra: “The lawsuit was filed on behalf of eight Minnesota voters, together with a former GOP-appointed state Supreme Court docket justice, a former Democratic secretary of state and an Iraq Warfare veteran who ran his county GOP chapter. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, acknowledged in an announcement final week that Minnesotans have the appropriate beneath state regulation to problem in courtroom a candidate’s eligibility for workplace, and pledged to ‘honor the end result of that course of.’” • The lawsuit. Jena Griswold, additionally a Secretary of State, is a defendant within the Colorado case. So the (granted, small) sample we now have thus far is non-swing states with Democrat Secretaries of State (or, presumably, different election officers). If this is the sample, the Democrats are making precisely the identical mistake right here that they made when suing for recounts in Florida 2020: Whereas preening themselves about defending democracy, in addition they solely sued in counties they thought Al Gore may in, not merely ceding the excessive floor, however speeding from it into the depths. Come on, dudes! Sue in some states with Republican Secretaries of State! Or is all of the yammering about “our democracy” simply noise?
* * * “The Sweep and Drive of Part Three” [William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Pennsylvania Law Review]. I extremely suggest this piece (and the following dialogue at NC, beginning right here). As a former English main and a fan of shut studying, I’m not averse to “originalism,” of which Baude and Paulsen present a magisterial instance, within the sense that understanding the regulation as a textual content should start with understanding the plain, public which means of the phrases used when the textual content was written. That’s how I learn Shakespeare, or Joyce, so why not the Structure? Simply so long as understanding doesn’t finish there! In any case, I’m working by way of it. One factor I discover is that there do appear to have been quite a variety of rebellions and insurrections, not simply the Civil Warfare. To me, that is parallel to 1 lesson I drew from Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast (episode 1): There are quite a variety of revolutions, too. Alert reader Pensions Man summarizes Baude and Paulsen as follows:
The authors undergo an exhaustive textual and originalism evaluation of Part Three, and their Federalist Society leanings don’t deter them from reaching their conclusion that officers in each State who’re charged with figuring out candidate {qualifications} ought to conclude that Donald Trump is disqualified from being on ballots due to the oath he took on Inauguration Day 2017 and subsequently violated by way of his position within the rebel that befell on January 6, 2021.
Taking “rebel” as learn (I must do extra studying), this has been extra of my persevering with protection of Part Three.
2024
Time for the Countdown Clock!
* * * “How Jack Smith can show Trump knew he misplaced the 2020 election” [The Hill]. “The prosecution will virtually definitely name witnesses who will swear that Trump privately acknowledged dropping the election. Cassidy Hutchinson, former assistant to Trump’s chief of workers, Mark Meadows, testifying earlier than the January sixth Home Choose Committee described conversations through which Meadows and different White Home workers reported listening to Trump admit he misplaced.” • So Hutchison is repeating what Meadows et al. mentioned they heard?
MAGA lacking the purpose:
NEW: President Trump assertion on Biden’s horrible Iranian hostage deal. pic.twitter.com/6imoX5RDFc
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) September 12, 2023
The purpose will not be the Iranian hostage deal (although little question some frothing and stamping will be labored up). Quite, Trump is saying: “I’ll see you the Fourteenth and lift you the Twenty-Fifth” (additionally, and amusingly, a “Part Three” and “Part 4” difficulty).
* * * “Speaker McCarthy directs a Home panel to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden” [Associated Press]. “Speaker Kevin McCarthy mentioned Tuesday he’s directing a Home committee to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over his household’s enterprise dealings, launching historic proceedings forward of the 2024 election. McCarthy mentioned the Home Oversight Committee’s investigation thus far has discovered a ‘tradition of corruption’ across the Biden household as Republicans probe the enterprise dealings of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, from earlier than the Democratic president took workplace. ‘These are allegations of abuse of energy, obstruction and corruption, and so they warrant additional investigation by the Home of Representatives,’ McCarthy, R-Calif., mentioned outdoors the speaker’s workplace on the Capitol. ‘That’s why right this moment I’m directing our Home committee to open a proper impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,’ he mentioned. The announcement comes because the Republican chief faces mounting strain from his proper flank to take motion in opposition to Biden whereas he is also struggling to go laws wanted to keep away from a federal authorities shutdown on the finish of the month.” • As I saying, I believed the Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability has finished a great job; no hysteria, no hairballs, timelines, a normal air of sobriety (in different phrases, match to control, at the least in tone). If Home Republicans can handle to remain that manner, they could get taken significantly outdoors the circle of true believers.
“Reality test: Biden falsely claims he was at Floor Zero ‘the subsequent day’ after 9/11” [CNN]. “Biden, coming back from a whirlwind journey to Asia, mentioned in his Monday remarks at a army base in Alaska: ‘I be part of you on this solemn day to resume our sacred vow: always remember. Always remember. We always remember. Every of us – every of these valuable lives stolen too quickly when evil attacked. Floor Zero in New York – I keep in mind standing there the subsequent day, and searching on the constructing. And I felt like I used to be trying by way of the gates of hell, it seemed so devastating due to the best way – from the place you possibly can stand.’ Information First: Biden was not at Floor Zero the day after 9/11. He really went to Floor Zero 9 days after the assaults.” • As a Certifi
readyed Outdated Codger™, I’ve gotta say I don’t assume being give-or-take per week off in recollecting an occasion twenty-two years in the past is value a dogpile. Now, if Biden had mentioned he met his outdated buddy “Corn Pop” on the website….“What an unprecedented Biden advert blitz says about his reelection battle” [Politico]. “The election remains to be 423 days away, and Biden and an affiliate of his chief tremendous PAC are already working TV adverts in almost each main battleground state — far sooner than regular for a presidential election… The election remains to be greater than a yr away, however the early advert bookings present clues to Democrats’ perceived path to victory. Each Biden and Future Ahead are spending in six states: . All six have been 2020 battlegrounds Biden gained by shut margins starting from 0.2 proportion factors in Georgia to 2.8 factors in Michigan. Biden’s marketing campaign can also be promoting in , which voted for Trump by 1.3 factors in 2020. Due to its rising inhabitants, North Carolina now has extra electoral votes (16) than Michigan (15) for the primary time since Reconstruction and now has the identical weight as Georgia. The 2 general-election campaigns will seemingly dip their toes into different locations, however these seven states signify the 2024 battlefield on which each events will do the overwhelming majority of their combating. The one state determined in 2020 by 5 factors or fewer that’s lacking from the advert buys is Florida — which went for Trump by 3.4 proportion factors and is perceived by each events as persevering with to float towards the GOP — although Biden’s marketing campaign did briefly run adverts there earlier this yr.” • Hmmm.
“Naomi Klein’s new e-book hints at a roadmap for Biden’s re-election” [MSNBC]. “…the world has understandably hastened to place the worldwide pandemic behind us… ” What subliterate life type wrote that sentence? [hums: “the world is us… we are the people…”]. Anyhow: “‘And since the system is rigged, and most of the people are certainly getting screwed,’ Klein writes, ‘and not using a agency understanding of capitalism’s drive to search out new revenue sources to surround and extract, many will think about there’s a cabal of uniquely nefarious people pulling the strings.’” It’s not a cabal. And its not an identification vertical. It’s a class. Extra: “Throughout the 2020 marketing campaign, Biden ran on a return to normalcy — an finish to what he known as the “aberrant” Trump presidency. On the one hand, not like his predecessor, Biden follows the regulation. However Individuals clearly nonetheless really feel overwhelmed within the post-pandemic malaise. ‘Individuals want very strong coverage options to those crises,’ Klein advised me, ‘and in the event that they’re not seeing them manifest, then they are going to be extra drawn to a type of a counterfeit anti-elitism, which is what the Bannons of the world are promoting.’” • Versus liberal Democrat counterfeit anti-elitism. I imply, Naomi, is the answer to capitalism’s “drive to search out new revenue sources to surround and extract” actually a “strong coverage answer”? (Once I did IT within the Beltway, again within the Age of Steam, my definition of “strong” was “huge honkin’ three-ring binder.” A brand new doorstop for each American employee!)
* * * IA: “Trump, Biden each tumble in Iowa: ballot” [The Hill]. “An Emerson School ballot of Iowa Republican caucus voters confirmed help for Trump at the moment sits at 49 p.c, a drop from 62 p.c in Might. In the meantime, a ballot of Iowa Democratic caucus voters confirmed that Biden’s help now sits at 50 p.c, a drop from 69 p.c in Might. Each Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and former Vice President Mike Pence’s numbers additionally dropped from Might; DeSantis’s numbers went from 20 p.c to 14 p.c, and Pence decreased from 5 p.c to three p.c help. In the meantime, conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) seemed to be gaining some floor, each rising 5 factors. Ramaswamy elevated from 2 p.c to 7 p.c, and Scott from 3 p.c to eight p.c.” • Unstable.
* * * “Yang confirms ‘conversations’ with No Labels” [The Hill]. “Yang has stirred some questions on his future plans with the creation of his Ahead Get together, which he has described as a centrist various to the 2 essential events he argues are too excessive. He left the Democratic Get together to grow to be an unbiased in 2021 and launched the Ahead Get together quickly after. No Labels has in the meantime been attempting to achieve steam to get its presidential ticket probably composed of 1 Democrat and one Republican on the 2024 poll in states throughout the nation. The group has known as for nationwide unity behind what could be a bipartisan ticket. … Yang slammed the thought of Trump and Biden being the 2 essential nominees, calling it “terribly unrepresentative and borderline ridiculous” and mentioning their ages. Biden is at the moment 80, whereas Trump is 77… Yang described a scenario through which third-party candidates may harm Biden in a possible rematch in opposition to Trump subsequent yr. He mentioned he expects Inexperienced Get together candidate Cornel West to win 2 p.c to three p.c of the vote and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s working within the Democratic main, to run as a Libertarian for not getting a “honest shake” in his problem in opposition to Biden.” • The nationwide percentages don’t matter. What issues is the swing states. (Which is why the GP’s poll entry issues a lot….).
Obama Legacy
“A Day that By no means Ended” [Matt Taibbi, Racket News]. “It’s forgotten, however Barack Obama was despatched to the White Home in what a variety of the voting public on the time thought of a referendum on the safety state. The genteel Obama performed up ‘constitutional lawyer’ credentials, saying in a nationwide safety tackle on the Wilson Heart in 2007 his opposition to the ‘color-coded politics of worry’ and ‘a struggle in Iraq that ought to by no means have been licensed.’ Candidate Obama added it was time to ‘flip the web page’ with extra peaceable technique of ‘drying up’ help for terrorism, a method that hurtled him previous favored Hillary Clinton in main season. Privately nevertheless he’d already met with folks like Richard Clarke, who advised him, ‘As a president, you kill folks.’ That is who Obama would really be in workplace, an ‘idealist with out illusions’ who expanded the buildup, institutionalized the ‘kill record,’ and in one in every of his final main acts, created a brand new counter-disinformation authority that helped beginning the censorship state.” • I’m at all times felt, though with no actual proof, that Obama’s refusal to prosecute spooks for torture in Iraq cemented an alliance between the intelligence group and the Democrat get together, resulting in their present Cthulhu-like merger. Additionally, Obama began out with a “kill record,” however when his extra-judicial system for whacking “terrorists,” together with US residents, actually bought rolling, the record morphed into the Orwellian “disposition matrix.”
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, evidently individuals are really studying the back-dated publish! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are numerous updates. So I should try this. –lambert
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 “stay” Water Cooler. (H opefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, the truth is, a tough drawback. 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 Pay attention, 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 elements of the Get together reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Get together (ka-ching, however not fully) these components 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 group.
Observe, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is restricted 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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Realignment and Legitimacy
“Do Geezers Run the World? Ought to They?” [Counterpunch]. • Do Walmart greeters run the world? From a putatively left publication!
#COVID19
“I’m in earnest — I can’t equivocate — I can’t excuse — I can’t retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Assets, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; consists of many counties; Wastewater Scan, consists of drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide information). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
Lambert right here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To replace any entry, do be happy to contact me on the tackle given with the vegetation. Please put “COVID” within the topic line. Thanks!
Assets, 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 stories); 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 (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).
Assets, Canada (Nationwide): Wastewater (Authorities of Canada).
Assets, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux usées); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).
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Maskstravaganza
Covid is Airborne
“One thing Terrible”
Lambert right here: I’m getting the sensation that the “One thing Terrible” is likely to be a sawtooth sample — variant after variant — that averages out to a completely excessive plateau. Numerous exceptionally nasty sequelae, most definitely deriving from immune dysregulation (says this layperson). To which we would add mind injury, together with persona adjustments therefrom.
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Case Knowledge
From BioBot wastewater information, September 11:
This time, it’s the South bringing down the curve
Regional information:
Apparently, the upswing begins earlier than July 4, which neither accelerates nor retards it.
Variants
NOT UPDATED From CDC, September 2:
Lambert right here: High of the leaderboard: EG.5 (“Eris“). No BA.2.86 right here, not even within the word, however see under at Positivity.
CDC: “As of Might 11, genomic surveillance information can be reported biweekly, based mostly on the provision of constructive check specimens.” “Biweeekly: 1. occurring each two weeks. 2. occurring twice per week; semiweekly.” Appears like CDC has chosen sense #1. In essence, they’re telling us variants are nothing to fret about. Time will inform.
Covid Emergency Room Visits
NOT UPDATED From CDC NCIRD Surveillance, September 2:
Lambert right here: One other Labor Day weekend drop, like Walgreens? Usually, three-day weekends don’t coincide with peak an infection!
Lambert right here: I modified this ER chart to a Covid-only chart damaged down by age. Observe the highlighting.
NOTE “Charts and information supplied by CDC, updates Wednesday by 8am. For the previous yr, utilizing a rolling 52-week interval.” So not your complete pandemic, FFS (the implicit message right here being that Covid is “similar to the flu,” which is why the seasonal “rolling 52-week interval” is suitable for eachMR SUBLIMINAL I hate these folks a lot. Discover additionally that this chart reveals, at the least for its time interval, that Covid is not seasonal, though CDC is attempting to get us to imagine that it’s, presumably to allow them to piggyback on the present institutional equipment for injections.
Hospitalization
Bellwether New York Metropolis, information as of September 9:
Nonetheless climbing. I hate this metric as a result of the lag makes it misleading.
NOT UPDATED Right here’s a unique CDC visualization on hospitalization, nationwide, not by state, however with a date, at the least. September 2:
No less than now we now that hospitalization tracks positivity, which is sweet. Even when we don’t know what number of instances there are. And positivity as excessive because it’s been at any time, aside from Omicron.
Positivity
NOT UPDATED From Walgreens, September 11:
0.4% Nonetheless pondering the dip is Labor Day information. Or maybe folks have been really testing for Labor Day, and stopped. Absolutely the numbers are nonetheless very small relative to June 2022, say. Apparently, these don’t correlate with the regional figures for wastewater. (It will be fascinating to survey this inhabitants typically; these are individuals who, regardless of a tsunami of official propaganda and large peer strain, went and bought examined anyhow.)
NOT UPDATED From CDC, traveler’s information, August 21:
A drop!
No BA.2.86 for 2 of the long-delayed assortment weeks.
Deaths
NOT UPDATED Iowa COVID-19 Tracker, September 6:
Lambert right here: The WHO information is nugatory, so I changed it with the Iowa Covid Knowledge Tracker. Their technique: “These information have been sourced, by way of the API from the CDC: https://information.cdc.gov/NCHS/Circumstances-Contributing-to-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Stat/hk9y-quqm. This visualization updates on Wednesday evenings. Knowledge are provisional and are adjusted weekly by the CDC.” I can’t appear to get a pop-up that reveals a complete of the three causes (high proper). Readers?
Complete: 1,174,631 – 1,174,580 = 51 (51 * 365 = 18,615 deaths per yr, right this moment’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling with” Covid (fairly a bit larger than the minimizers would love, although they will speak themselves into something. If the YouGenicist™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I could must resolve that is what the powers-that-be think about “mission completed” for this explicit tranche of demise and illness).
Extra Deaths
The Economist, September 12:
Lambert right here: That is now being up to date day by day. Odd. Based mostly on a machine-learning mannequin. (The CDC has an extra estimate too, however because it ran ceaselessly with an enormous typo within the Legend, I figured no one was actually taking a look at it, so I bought rid it. )
Stats Watch
Enterprise Optimism: “United States NFIB Enterprise Optimism Index” [Trading Economics]. “The NFIB Small Enterprise Optimism Index in the USA decreased to 91.3 in August 2023 from 91.9 in July, under market expectations of 91.6. Twenty-three p.c of small enterprise homeowners reported that inflation was their single most necessary enterprise drawback, up two factors from final month. Additionally, the variety of small enterprise homeowners anticipating higher enterprise situations over the subsequent six months declined.”
Tech: “United States takes on Google in greatest tech monopoly trial of twenty first century” [NPR]. “A courtroom battle kicks off on Tuesday through which the U.S. Justice Division will argue that Google abused its energy as a monopoly to dominate the search engine enterprise. It’s the federal government’s first main monopoly case to make it to trial in many years and the primary within the age of the trendy web. The Justice Division’s case hinges on claims that Google illegally orchestrated its enterprise dealings, in order that it’s the primary search engine folks see once they activate their telephones and net browsers. The federal government says Google’s purpose was to stomp out competitors. The corporate says its search product is superior to opponents and that’s the reason it dominates the business. Google says if folks don’t need to use its search engine, they will simply change to a different.” • That passes neither the chortle check nor the odor check. Google search, as a penalties of the enshittification cycle, sucks. Stoller is in his ingredient:
I am saying a particular part of BIG particularly centered on the Google trial, the largest antitrust case in a technology. The trial begins tomorrow. Prepare. @BigTechOnTrial https://t.co/VedXW09B4V
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) September 11, 2023
Tech: “Google Chrome pushes forward with focused adverts based mostly in your browser historical past” [The Register]. “Google has been steadily rolling out Chrome’s ‘Enhanced Advert Privateness.’ That’s the expertise that, until switched off, permits web sites to focus on the person with adverts tuned to their on-line actions and pursuits based mostly on their browser histories. A popup saying this performance has been showing for some people because the July launch of Chrome 115, which included help for Google’s Matters API, which is a part of the tech titan’s Privateness Sandbox venture. It will seem increasingly folks are actually seeing this popup as these not eager on Chrome mining their searching histories to help Google’s promoting earnings have been talking up. We perceive a small proportion of Chrome’s customers are being pulled into the Matters API regime at a time, so it’s possible you’ll not have seen or been provided or alerted to something. And the way the Chocolate Manufacturing unit asks you to conform to or settle for the advert focusing on will depend on the place you reside, or quite, the legal guidelines of the place you reside…. Matters basically works like this: quite than utilizing cookies to trace folks across the net and determine their pursuits from the websites they go to and the apps they use, web sites can ask Chrome immediately, by way of its Matters JavaScript API, what kind of issues the person is enthusiastic about, after which show adverts based mostly on that. Chrome picks these matters of curiosity from finding out the person’s browser historical past.” • Guess I’m gonna must look extra significantly at Arc. It’s depraved quick, however I must open a boatload of tabs on the identical time, and that’s the one factor Arc doesn’t do properly (although it most likely additionally tries to do an excessive amount of, however that’s one other story).
As we speak’s Worry & Greed Index: 54 Impartial (earlier shut: 52 Impartial) [CNN]. One week in the past: 58 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 12 at 1:36 PM ET.
Class Warfare
“Exhausted, Injured and Offended: Autoworkers Are Able to Strike” [In These Times]. “Among the union’s high calls for are cost-of-living changes, an finish to wage and profit tiers based mostly on hiring date, and an finish to the mistreatment of short-term staff. ‘Once I took this job, it was not a conventional job for ladies. I really like my job. I’ve delight. I would like them to point out they’ve respect.’ These calls for apply not simply to Ford however to all of the ’Large Three’ automakers — Ford, Common Motors and Stellantis North America (the guardian firm of Chrysler and Jeep). UAW’s contracts with all three, protecting some 146,000 staff, run out on the identical time, a momentous alternative for joint labor motion throughout employers from a union that not too long ago noticed an enormous shift in management. Reform challenger Shawn Fain gained the union presidency in March, calling for a brand new period of militancy, extra democratic decision-making and new organizing. Fain has struck a confrontational stance in the direction of the Large Three automakers — and the rich class general—criticizing the greed of company executives and making daring calls for, like a 32-hour work week with no decreased pay. Different calls for Fain has introduced to the entire Large Three embody enhanced revenue sharing, improved wages, extra paid day without work and the appropriate to strike over vegetation closing. And because the Biden administration subsidizes a increase in electric-vehicle manufacturing, the union additionally desires a simply transition to make sure electrical automobile jobs are good jobs and don’t drive down labor situations.” • Commentary:
Shawn Fain, president of @UAW, went on CNN.
When requested if a strike may harm the economic system he mentioned:
“It isn’t that we’ll wreck the economic system. We’ll wreck their economic system, the economic system that solely works for the billionaire class. It does not work for the working class.” pic.twitter.com/84HrhnmvWu
— Extra Excellent Union (@MorePerfectUS) September 12, 2023
Let’s see if Biden busts the auto staff like he did the railroad staff.
Information of the Wired
“September Music: The 50 Autumns of the Leaf Blower” [James Fallows, Breaking the News]. “The centered 200-mph wind out of those blowers, an depth unknown in nature, destroys plant and animal habitat, blasts away topsoil, converts animal stays and animal feces to aerosol, and is mostly dangerous. Do you miss the fireflies you used to see in the summertime? One in all their huge enemies is blowers that eradicate the natural shelter through which their eggs and larvae would spend the winter.” • [gasps, amazed].
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