By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, I obtained a late begin in the present day. I’ll make it up tomorrow, I swear! –lambert
Fowl Music of the Day
Brown Thrasher, Lengthy Department SP and Lake, Macon, Missouri, United States.
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In Case You May Miss…
Trump transition: Gabbard, Hegseth.
“That’s fairly an act. What do you name it?”
LA fires.
Tintin now within the public area.
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Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
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Capitol Seizure
“Vance says Jan. 6 individuals who dedicated violence ‘clearly’ shouldn’t be pardoned” [Associated Press]. “Vance insisted in an interview on ‘Fox Information Sunday’ that the pardon query is ‘quite simple,’ saying those that ‘protested peacefully’ must be pardoned and ‘in the event you dedicated violence on that day, clearly you shouldn’t be pardoned.’ He later stated there was a ‘little bit of a grey space’ in some instances.”
Trump Transition
“Democrats wish to gradual Gabbard affirmation path” [The Hill]. “Democrats are insisting on delaying Gabbard’s affirmation listening to for director of nationwide intelligence, saying they nonetheless don’t have the total slate of background checks, ethics disclosures and paperwork on a candidate whose general {qualifications} have sparked their concern. ‘We’re going to insist on these paperwork earlier than we go ahead. I imply, that’s simply sort of a nonnegotiable. You possibly can’t do ‘recommendation and consent’ with out it,’ Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) stated. ‘Notably within the nationwide safety context, it’s crucial that you’ve these paperwork. Possibly it’s not flashy and it’s not viral, nevertheless it occurs to be how I really feel.’ The pushback seems to have efficiently delayed a listening to that might usually happen forward of Trump being sworn into workplace Jan. 20…. ‘That is an awfully necessary job,’ [ Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)] continued. ‘Lots of this [is] additionally about defending the independence of the intelligence group and ensuring we proceed to have the power to share labeled info with our allies.’” • Lol, the “independence of the intelligence group.”
“Hegseth’s views on ladies in fight, infidelity and extra — in his personal phrases” [Associated Press]. “If confirmed, [Hegseth] has stated there will likely be no extra ‘social justice, politically right approaches to how we struggle and conduct wars.’ As an alternative, he stated, ‘that is about lethality, meritocracy, readiness.’” • Nicely… OTOH, we don’t wish to flip into the IDF, now can we?
“Trump’s Cupboard disruptors soften key views as hearings loom” [Axios]. “Three of President-elect Trump’s most provocative Cupboard picks have reversed key positions forward of subsequent week’s affirmation hearings, softening their edges for an institution they’ve been charged with tearing down. For as highly effective as MAGA has turn into, the Senate’s affirmation course of stays a major impediment — at the least nominally — to injecting fringe beliefs immediately into the center of presidency…. Gabbard informed Punchbowl Information on Friday that she now helps the Part 702 surveillance program because of up to date whistleblower and civil liberty protections…. RFK Jr. informed reporters on Capitol Hill final month: ‘I’m all for the polio vaccine’” Now do MMR. Extra: “Hegseth, after an early conflict with Military veteran Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), stated he helps ‘all ladies serving in our army in the present day.’” And: “Their maximalist impulses could have been tamed, however that doesn’t imply Gabbard, Kennedy and Hegseth gained’t be capable of radically remodel their companies in the best way MAGA envisions.”
“Bessent to divest from property on highway to main Treasury” [The Hill]. “President-elect Trump’s Treasury Secretary choose Scott Bessent has plans to divest from funds and different investments as he prepares to take over because the nation’s prime financial official. In an settlement launched Saturday by the Workplace of Authorities Ethics forward of Bessent’s affirmation listening to on Thursday, he outlined his plans. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund supervisor, additionally shared his monetary disclosures forward of the Senate listening to later this week. Prime authorities officers sometimes are required to reveal their holdings and divest from ones that might trigger a battle of curiosity. ‘Within the occasion that an precise or potential battle of curiosity arises throughout my appointment, I’ll seek the advice of with an company ethics official and take the measures essential to resolve the battle, reminiscent of recusal from the actual matter or divestiture of an asset,’ Bessent wrote. Bessent stated he’ll resign from his place with Key Sq. Group upon being confirmed by the Senate. He stated he would additionally divest his partnership share within the firm ‘as quickly as practicable.’ Bessent stated he would resign from his positions at different corporations and foundations as effectively.” • Every little thing going very easily with Bessent.
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Good work, Susie:
Vivek has solely posted twice on X for the reason that New 12 months.
Observe: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/VOikWxjJ5Y
— AF Put up (@AFpost) January 12, 2025
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“Trump posts wildly life like lip-read of bromance with Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral – together with brutal dig at Kamala” [Daily Mail]. “The pair laughed and chatted throughout Jimmy Carter’s funeral on the Nationwide Cathedral in Washington DC final week. Trump was even questioned about what was so humorous following the bizarre show of friendliness. The hypothesis left skilled lip readers scrambling to decipher what remarks between two bitter rivals has sparked such joyous laughter. Trump then determined to launch his personal pseudo-version of occasions stay by posting a wildly artistic – and outrageously faux – lip-read video to Instagram.” • Right here it’s:
Obama: “I used to be simply as appalled.” Are we positive this can be a parody?
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“Incoming Trump Workforce Is Questioning Nationwide Safety Council Employees Over Loyalty” [Associated Press]. • Ick, however after RussiaGate you may see why; Gal 6:7.
Lawfare
“Particular counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ” [Politico]. • First Smith butchered his case in opposition to McAuliffe; then Smith butchered his instances in opposition to Trump. I count on we’ll be listening to from him once more!
“Cannon permits for launch of Smith report on Trump election interference” [The Hill]. “U.S. District Courtroom Decide Aileen Cannon on Monday allowed the discharge of the amount of particular counsel Jack Smith’s report coping with President-elect Trump’s efforts to dam the peaceable switch of energy. In a five-page ruling, Cannon denied an effort by Trump and his two co-defendants within the Mar-a-Lago paperwork case to dam the discharge of each volumes of the report, noting that prosecutors argued the election inference report has little to do with the continuing trial in opposition to the 2 males…. Nonetheless, Cannon ordered a Jan. 17 listening to on whether or not to launch the Mar-a-Lago report, one thing Legal professional Common Merrick Garland stated he deliberate to maintain sealed from the general public given the continuing prosecution into valet Walt Nauta and property supervisor Carlos de Oliveira. The ruling is a victory for the Justice Division, who’ve been pushing for the discharge of the report recapping the Jan. 6 investigation in two completely different courts.”
“Redacted Russiagate docs present the feds are STILL mendacity about Trump and their putsch try” [New York Post]. “The feds are nonetheless mendacity and obfuscating in regards to the Russiagate conspiracy in opposition to Donald Trump: Witness the latest launch, years late and closely redacted, of a doc in regards to the origin of the FBI probe. This involves gentle thanks solely to the dogged efforts of the parents at RealClearInvestigations. The most important factor the Bureau remains to be hiding: The ‘articulable factual foundation’ on which its 2017 probe of Trump’s alleged position as a Russian intelligence asset was legitimated.” Then follows a superb timeline. Conclusion: “[Y]ou don’t must be Picasso (or Vassily Kandinsky) to attach the dots about what the FBI remains to be hiding and why. Nobody can know for positive till the Bureau tells the reality, nevertheless it’s past doubtless that the redacted ‘articulable factual foundation’ of the 2017 probe is each non-factual and non-actionable.” • Yup.
2024 Put up Mortem
Not difficult:
Be aware that everyone who masterminded the Kamala 2024 marketing campaign retains hegemony (although we will see with the DNC election).
Democrats en déshabillé
“Unique: DNC faucets Harris’ viral wizards for brand spanking new social media push” [Axios]. “The Democratic Nationwide Committee is tapping veterans of the wildly common @KamalaHQ social media staff for a brand new fast response push forward of Donald Trump’s return to workplace, Axios realized. The push is the most recent signal of the social gathering’s efforts to rebrand and herald new audiences after a disappointing 2024 cycle. The brand new fast response @FactPostNews initiative will attempt to fight on-line misinformation and reply to Trump administration actions by pushing out memes, movies and graphics. The account will likely be run by lots of the similar individuals who led the @KamalaHQ social media account through the 2024 marketing campaign. @FactPostNews will begin on X, Threads, and Bluesky and can finally increase to TikTok, Fb, and Instagram.
‘The Republican disinformation machine is highly effective, however we consider a stronger weapon is giving folks the details about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American folks,’ DNC chief mobilization officer Shelby Cole stated in a press release. Between the traces: The account may even take a branding cue from social media accounts which have enormous, loyal followings, reminiscent of PopCrave and PopBase.” • See, Cole used language like “screwing over.” That proves they’re genuine.
“We’re DNC Members. Right here’s What We Want From the Subsequent Occasion Chair” [David Atkins and Michael Kapp, Washington Monthly]. “Because the social gathering tries to stem its losses amongst non-white and non-college voters, fixing the DNC’s tradition and construction have to be on the prime of the record of priorities.” • Conceptualizing the Democrats issues as “losses amongst non-white and non-college voters” erases the idea of the working class fully. Maybe that’s the issue?
“Have the previous 10 years of Democratic politics been a catastrophe?” (interview) [Matthew Yglesias, Vox]. Interviewer Eric Levitz. Throwing a flag on the Betteridge’s Legislation violation right here; how does shedding to Donald Trump twice depend as something however a catastrophe? Anyhow, looking for a raisin on this bowl of mush: “The large image factor is: Beginning within the 2016 marketing campaign and persevering with afterwards, Democrats talked so much in regards to the concept of Donald Trump as an outlier menace to the nation — however in follow, they handled his flaws as a possibility to be extra boldly and aggressively progressive throughout an entire bunch of fronts.” • Like Medicare for All, to take however one instance. Or normalizing genocide. How come Biden by no means will get credit score for that?
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“Election math appears to be like prefer it’s simply going to get simpler for the GOP” [The Hill]. “It’s going to get more durable and more durable for Democrats to win the Electoral School and the White Home if current traits maintain, new projections from the U.S. Census Bureau recommend. Democratic strongholds like California and New York seem prone to lose inhabitants and a number of electoral votes, whereas GOP-leaning states like Texas and Florida are prone to choose up votes. That might result in a shift in 2030. These modifications might assist increase the map for the GOP, except Democrats can determine methods to win Texas, Florida or another states they misplaced to President-elect Trump.” And: “Taken altogether, if the estimated new map was in place for 2024, Trump would have gained 10 further electoral votes, whereas Vice President Harris would’ve gained 10 fewer.” • So the answer is best messaging. Alrighty then.
Realignment and Legitimacy
“A time for reality and reconciliation” [Peter Thiel, Financial Times]. “In 2016, President Barack Obama informed his workers that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was right. However understood within the unique sense of the Greek phrase apokálypsis, that means ‘unveiling’, Obama couldn’t give the identical reassurance in 2025. Trump’s return to the White Home augurs the apokálypsis of the ancien regime‘s secrets and techniques. The brand new administration’s revelations needn’t justify vengeance — reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. However for reconciliation to happen, there should first be reality.” After a abstract of JFK, Epstein, Fauci, debanking cryptoids (one among these just isn’t just like the others): “South Africa confronted its apartheid historical past with a proper fee, however answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit each Trump’s chaotic model and our web world, which processes and propagates quick packets of knowledge. The primary Trump administration shied away from declassifications as a result of it nonetheless believed within the rightwing deep state of an Oliver Stone film. This perception has light.” And: “Our ancien regime, just like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the social gathering would by no means finish. 2016 shook their historicist religion within the arc of the ethical universe however by 2020 they hoped to put in writing Trump off as an aberration. On reflection, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard motion of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler. There will likely be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet previous.” • Good shot with “struldbrugg.” Commentary:
I haven’t learn up on Thiel. However from what I’ve learn, I discover myself in settlement with Loomer. Which is a bit of unnerving, to say the least.
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
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Covid Sources, 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 knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Airborne Transmission
Nearly 5 years after Newton, however good anyhow:
Boston has put in CO, CO2 and particulate matter sensors in 4436 school rooms to observe indoor air high quality in actual time. Measurements are freely accessible at An incredible effort in transparency. Different comparable initiatives: pic.twitter.com/2iOEV0wCHu
— LET’S AIR (@nousaerons) January 13, 2025
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TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
Wastewater
This week[1] CDC December 30
Final week[2] CDC (till subsequent week):
Variants [3] CDC December 21
Emergency Room Visits[4] CDC January 4
Hospitalization
★ New York[5] New York State, knowledge January 10:
Nationwide [6] CDC Janurary 9, 2005:
Positivity
Nationwide[7] Walgreens January 13:
Ohio[8] Cleveland Clinic January 4:
Vacationers Knowledge
★ Positivity[9] CDC December 23:
★ Variants[10] CDC December 23
Deaths
★ Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11] CDC January 4:
★ Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12] CDC January 4:
LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new in the present day; all others will not be up to date.
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NOTES
[1] (CDC) Seeing extra pink and extra orange, however nothing new at main hubs.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) XEC takes over. That WHO label, “Ommicron,” has finished a terrific job normalizing successive waves of an infection.
[4] (ED) Somewhat uptick.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Positively jumped.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). Leveling out.
[7] (Walgreens) Leveling out.
[8] (Cleveland) Continued upward development since, effectively, Thanksgiving.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Leveling out.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants). Positivity is new, however variants haven’t but been launched.
[11] Deaths low, positivity leveling out.
[12] Deaths low, ED leveling out.
Stats Watch
There aren’t any official statistics of curiosity in the present day.
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Manufacturing: “AerCap CEO warns tariffs might delay Boeing money restoration” [Reuters]. “AerCap, the world’s largest plane leasing firm, stated on Monday that potential new commerce tariffs floated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump might hit provide chains and hinder planemaker Boeing’s (BA.N), opens new tab efforts to revive much-needed money… ‘We’ll have to attend and see … what’s within the element. Lots of components which might be equipped to Boeing, Airbus, and Embraer plane are widespread,” [AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly] informed Reuters on the sidelines of the Airline Economics convention. ‘What would you do with an engine that’s partly made in France? Are you going to place a tariff of 20% on that engine? Is that counterproductive?’ Kelly added.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing Inventory Would Profit from a Breakup, Specialist Says” [Barron’s]. ‘”It’s time for Boeing ‘s administration to get up and begin creating worth,’ says Jim Osman…. Boeing shareholders are long-suffering. By way of Friday buying and selling, shares had been down nearly 50% over the previous 5 years whereas the S&P 500 was up nearly 80%. The explanations for the underperformance have been effectively documented: catastrophic design choices, a pandemic, administration turnover, questionable capital allocation, and poor manufacturing high quality.
Osman is campaigning for a full breakup. He desires to see Boeing break up into its three foremost divisions: business aerospace, protection, and providers.”
Manufacturing: “Troubled Boeing Presents To Help Nigerian Airways Safe Plane Insurance coverage” [Sahara Reporters]. “Boeing Worldwide Company has expressed its willingness to help Nigerian airways in securing ample plane insurance coverage protection. This help will likely be facilitated by means of partnerships with financially secure lessors and world financiers. Moore Ibekwe, Boeing’s Gross sales Director for the Africa Area Industrial Airways, made this announcement in Dublin, Eire, on the inaugural assembly of the ‘Boeing Lessor Discussion board’, which takes place from January 12 to fifteen.” • Not less than the gross sales division is in there punching.
Tech: Elon’s mercurial pesonality:
Please publish a bit extra optimistic, stunning or informative content material on this platform pic.twitter.com/J7JkxdfrAR
— David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙♂️🌈 (@David_Leavitt) January 12, 2025
One thing happening right here. Maybe we must always invoke the Twenty Fifth Modification?
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Right this moment’s Concern & Greed Index: 25 Excessive Concern (earlier shut: 26 Concern) [CNN]. One week in the past: 37 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jan 13 at 1:33:14 PM ET.
Rapture Index: Closes up one on Wild Climate. “The fires in California are the results of very wild climate” [Rapture Ready]. Document Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 181. (Keep in mind that bringing on the Rapture is nice.) • “Wild Climate” (#38) versus Local weather (#43).
Zeitgeist Watch
“Trump’s staff is discussing a visit to survey the L.A. wildfire devastation” [NBC]. “President-elect Donald Trump’s staff is engaged in conversations about his visiting Los Angeles to view the wildfire harm, two sources acquainted with the discussions stated. Trump, who has repeatedly criticized native and state officers for his or her response to the hearth, has been invited out by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Rep Judy Chu, additionally a Democrat, stated Sunday on CBS Information she meant to ask each Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as effectively. Trump transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt declined to touch upon the journey discussions. It’s unclear whether or not Trump would go earlier than or after his Jan. 20 inauguration…. On ‘Fox Information Sunday’ this weekend, Vice President-elect JD Vance stated he knew Trump ‘desires to go to California,’ however provided no additional particulars.”• It’s a lure!
“Slender Roads, Deep Canyons: L.A. Firefighters Confront Nature’s Excellent Firetrap” [Wall Street Journal]. “It’s right here, among the many cliffs and crevices of Topanga Canyon, that crews face an actual dogfight in among the most complicated firefighting topography on the earth. Firefighters’ largest mission is to guard the property and lives of the roughly 10,000 residents, many whose houses cling to steep terrain off winding, tree-lined streets so slim that two autos can’t move in locations. Whereas small in inhabitants, Topanga looms massive in Angeleno lore as a getaway for Hollywood stars within the Nineteen Twenties, and residential within the Sixties to rockers Neil Younger, Jim Morrison and Linda Ronstadt, together with serial killer Charles Manson and his household. Wedged within the Santa Monica Mountains, the canyon has seen quite a few blazes through the years—though none as menacing within the 57 years that Armida Madrid has lived right here.” • Price a learn for the native colour.
“LA’s wealthy & well-known hiring $2,000-an-hour personal firefighters to guard million-dollar houses & companies” [The U.S. Sun]. “One rich supply stated: ‘This week’s occasions have proven you may’t belief town to guard your property.’ The supply added: ‘I’ve the cash, so why not?’ Non-public firefighters will not be unusual in LA with Kim Kardashian utilizing personal crews to save lots of her house in Hidden Hills California within the 2013 wildfires.” • And all these beautiful folks will search locations to stay which might be “unspoiled.”
“Editorial: From town that used fireplace as a catalyst for reinvention, good needs for Los Angeles” [Chicago Tribune]. “Right here in Chicago, historians see a fireplace during which one-third of individuals on this metropolis misplaced their houses and at the least 300 died as a novel catalyst for progress and reinvention, though it it’s typically forgotten that town obtained loads of assist from folks exterior its borders. Inside little greater than 12 months, a customer to Chicago couldn’t see many seen indicators of the prior destruction, and the roaring metropolis had gained a fierce and lasting fame for resilience and new alternative. As soon as the fires are out and losses mourned, LA may have an analogous likelihood to look onerous on the altering surroundings during which it lives, enhance its providers with the good thing about bitter expertise and construct again higher. For now, although, we stand with its folks by means of the painful slog of restoration.”
“The psychological toll of California’s catastrophic fires” [Axios]. “Individuals uncovered to California’s deadliest wildfire, the 2018 Camp Hearth, confirmed better power signs of PTSD, nervousness and melancholy, based on analysis revealed in 2023. ‘These findings dovetail with vital psychological impacts famous after excessive local weather occasions,’ researchers wrote. ‘Warming temperatures have been additional linked to better suicide charges.’ One other research from final 12 months discovered that wildfires are related to elevated emergency room visits for nervousness issues within the western U.S. Generally pragmatism comes earlier than grief throughout a catastrophe just like the city wildfires, Katzman stated. Individuals may first prioritize determining what a return to work or college will might like, earlier than processing the loss…. ‘Solastalgia’ has been used to explain the power misery of seeing damaging environmental change in a single’s house surroundings.” • Phrase of the day: “Solastalgia.”
Reasonably like Occupy Sandy:
In case you’re seeing all of the air filters and respirators being handed out totally free in LA, bear in mind these assets are solely accessible as a result of covid activists have remained steadfast in advocating for clear air and masks use since 2020.
— inky labyrinth 📚🍉 (@InkyLabyrinth) January 11, 2025
Gallery
New hen:
Monet, The Magpie pic.twitter.com/gH0oIzUPAK
— Impressions (@impression_ists) January 13, 2025
Previous hen (I apologize for X’s depressing cropping algorithm):
Pieter Bruegel The ElderThe Hunters within the Snow (element) 1565 pic.twitter.com/2ama6QstDU
— Marysia (@marysia_cc) January 12, 2025
Information of the Wired
“Celebrating the Timeless Attract of Tintin’s Aesthetics” [College Towns]. “The Adventures of Tintin formally entered the general public area in 2025. We now all personal the alluring aesthetics of this timeless traditional…. The panels and pages inside Tintin are stuffed with an ephemeral previous world that doesn’t actually exist anymore (if it ever did). Hergé creates a way of scaled urbanism in addition to the naturalistic world in fantastical but actual locations. The colour palettes and particulars give it a temper and environment that has common enchantment. Darkish-drawn outlines enable the colours to pop off the web page, referred to as “European ‘ligne claire’ model,” based on cartoonist Barry Deutsch. These stills are from comedian panels, however they’re additionally artworks with aesthetics instantly recognizable. They provide a variety of feelings: a brand new journey begins within the bustle of an enormous metropolis, the immensity of a mountain vary, the calmness of house.” • Jogs my memory a little bit of Richard Scarry, who I noticed advocate lately for his guide on fire-fighting gear. And as with Babar the Elephant, I’m positive there’s a colonial interpretation available. However for now:
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