By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Affected person readers, I apologize that this Water Cooler is so gentle; I’ve had a tiring couple of days. However you’ll be able to speak amongst yourselves! –lambert
Chicken Track of the Day
Alpine Thrush, Dhap Kharka, Nepal.
Politics
“However what’s authorities itself, however the best of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“Right here’s meals for thought, had Ahab time to assume; however Ahab by no means thinks; he solely feels, feels, feels” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“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
Abortion
“Anti-Abortion ‘Abolitionists’ Wish to Cost Abortion Sufferers Like Murderers Now” [Vice]. “Mainstream anti-abortion activists have lengthy insisted they don’t need to punish individuals who get abortions. Now, that declare is being put to the take a look at. Though many states are just a few weeks into their first state legislative periods since Roe v. Wade was overturned, legislators in Arkansas and Oklahoma have already launched payments that will punish abortion sufferers. In Alabama, the state’s lawyer basic initially stated he might use a state legislation to punish folks for ending their pregnancies, then tried to stroll it again. These sorts of techniques are forcing anti-abortion activists to confront a long-simmering pressure inside their motion: What are they presupposed to do with individuals who get abortions? Usually, abortion restrictions goal suppliers, not sufferers. Inside the anti-abortion motion, sufferers are handled like victims who’ve been bamboozled into ending their pregnancies by the predatory ‘abortion trade.’ However now that Roe is gone and states are proposing insurance policies to legally deal with fetuses like folks, that won’t maintain water for for much longer. ‘I feel there are some folks, and possibly a pretty big group of individuals, for whom ladies’s innocence is conditional and so they could possibly be persuaded that it’s not actual,’ stated Mary Ziegler, a professor on the College of California, Davis, legislation faculty who research the authorized historical past of replica.”
Biden Administration
“Veterans of the Obama-era debt ceiling standoff on the present one: We could also be doomed” [Politico]. “[An economic adviser in the Obama White House, David] Kamin isn’t the one one struck by a foreboding sense of déjà vu. From the White Home to Wall Road, a rising variety of veterans of the 2011 debt ceiling disaster are once more watching a narrative of bluster and brinkmanship play out — and are terrified this would be the time it ends with the nation in monetary break…. The parallels to the Obama-era stalemate are clear, as Home Republican leaders vow to position restraints on a Democratic administration, whereas additionally attempting to handle their troublesome conservative wing. However not like in 2011, Republicans are getting ready to stare down the White Home with no clear consensus on what they need in trade for protecting the U.S. monetary system afloat. The prevailing precept, as a substitute, seems to be extracting a level of political ache for President Joe Biden. And maybe most worryingly — Democrats, economists and even some Republicans say — there’s little confidence that Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy has the affect to efficiently steer his convention away from the brink.” • Hmm. The entire article is bizarre, since though there’s quite a bit fear emanating from Obama veterans, the scenario can be being gamed out, however the video games should not described. For those who imagine that Obama’s hand-held the dagger on the Biden doc flap, you may properly imagine that Obama’s pulling the strings of those “veterans.” Maybe to weaken Biden? To result in, in the end, the “Grand Discount”?
Preventing like hell (1):
President Biden introduced in October that he was pardoning all folks convicted of straightforward hashish possession on the federal degree.
111 days later, the Justice Division nonetheless hasn’t posted the applying to acquire a pardon.
— Extra Good Union (@MorePerfectUS) January 26, 2023
Preventing like hell (2):
As we speak, fewer households are dealing with foreclosures and eviction than earlier than the pandemic.
Individuals are beginning to breathe just a bit bit simpler.
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 25, 2023
“Fewer.” “A little bit bit simpler.” It’s just like the Biden White Home has settled on the “minimal viable bullet level” for all its communications to voters…
2024
“OMG. Trump Has Began Texting.” [New York Times]. “The previous president has lengthy been continually on his telephone, however solely to speak into it — or, earlier than he was kicked off Twitter, to ship streams of tweets. (The previous aide who helped arrange his Twitter account as soon as informed Politico that when Trump, who initially relied on aides to write down his posts, started to tweet on his personal, it was akin to the scene within the movie “Jurassic Park” when the velociraptors realized to open doorways.) For years, folks corresponding with him despatched him textual content messages, which all the time went unanswered. He was unreachable by e mail. He typically requested aides to ship digital messages to reporters, referring to the missives as ‘wires,’ like a telegram. Now his delayed embrace of what has lengthy been a default mode of communication spanning generations indicators not solely a willingness to affix on this planet of LOLs and BRBs but in addition a small shift from his aversion to leaving paper or digital trails. Individuals who have labored for Trump within the White Home and in his personal enterprise say he has prided himself on being “sensible” for leaving nearly no documentation of his communications and discussions in conferences. That included snatching notes being taken in actual time by a junior authorized affiliate in his workplaces within the Nineteen Nineties, when Trump noticed the person scribbling, in keeping with a marketing consultant working for him then. Those that have witnessed firsthand his visceral aversion to document protecting stated they have been shocked to find out about his new digital behavior…. The truth that Trump is now sending texts has brought about alarm amongst a few of his associates, who’re involved about what he may say. Nonetheless, they’ve been relieved about one other shift: His telephone now sends calls that aren’t from numbers in his contacts to voicemail, in keeping with two folks conversant in the change. That shift occurred this month after an NBC reporter referred to as Trump straight throughout Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s determined battle to be elected speaker of the Home. Trump picked up, giving a short interview that created some political heartburn for Republicans. Nonetheless unclear is Trump’s place on emoji.” • I feel Trump might be right here for emoji, as he must be.
Democrats en Déshabillé
Affected person readers, plainly persons are really studying the back-dated submit! However I’ve not up to date it, and there are various updates. So I must try this. –lambert
I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Social gathering (“the Democrat Social gathering is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated submit, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Social gathering is, the truth is, a tough downside. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on level all the way in which again to 2016, if not earlier than:
The Democrat Social gathering is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Social gathering didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” in fact.) Second, all of the working elements of the Social gathering reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between components of the Social gathering (ka-ching, however not fully) these components comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.
Notice, in fact, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different courses; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.
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Realignment and Legitimacy
“To reclaim Ohioans’ historic energy, First Power’s company constitution must be revoked” [Ohio Capital Journal (Carla)]. “The illegalities related to FirstEnergy Company in its bribery scheme to cross Home Invoice 6 (HB 6) proceed to floor, most lately its improper use of ratepayer cash to fund darkish cash efforts totaling $70.9 million. A number of people have already pleaded responsible for his or her function within the largest bribery scandal in Ohio historical past…. ndependent of additional federal motion and court docket circumstances towards accountable people, Ohio Lawyer Common David Yost can and will start constitution revocation (referred to as “quo warranto”) proceedings towards FirstEnergy, a authorized creation licensed within the state of Ohio as offered by Ohio Revised Code § 2733.02 to § 2733.39. A number of Ohio teams are calling for this motion, a course of that will dissolve the corporate. Quo warranto is a authorized continuing difficult the continued proper of a person or company to own governmental privilege, be it an workplace within the case of a person or constitution within the case of a company. Companies ought to serve the general public good. They obtain their constitution from the federal government, which grants them sure privileges and powers. Companies discovered to interrupt the legislation and achieve this with intent mustn’t merely be fined, as FirstEnergy Company has been, however have their charters revoked or terminated. Each day we see that financial fines don’t change prison company conduct. Revocation of company constitution was as soon as widespread in Ohio in response to firms appearing past their authority as outlined of their company charters. Quo warranto proceedings have been as soon as used routinely as a democratic device by Ohio legislatures and courts to affirm the sovereign energy of We the Individuals over firms, that are, in any case, creations of presidency. Probably the most well-known quo warranto case in Ohio historical past concerned the efforts to revoke the constitution of the Normal Oil Firm, essentially the most highly effective U.S. company of the time, for forming a belief… Constitution revocation is seen by some as a ‘radical’ act when in actuality it solely follows a robust historic precedent already set in our state. The really ‘radical’ act is a rogue company blatantly trampling on our democratic course of.” • Very attention-grabbing!
#COVID19
Lambert right here: I’m however a humble tapewatcher, however not like Eric Topol, I’m not calling a surge, as a result of the final peak was Biden’s Omicron debacle, and after an Everest like that, what’s left? Topol’s view is the institution view: Hospital-centric. Mine is infection-centric. I don’t see the common acceleration or doubling in circumstances that I’d anticipate to see based mostly on previous surges.
I’m calling a “One thing Terrible.” It’s gonna be unhealthy, in some new approach, and we don’t understand how, but (however see right here for immune system dysregulation, which is wanting fairly terrible).
Keep secure on the market!
“WHO Director-Common’s opening remarks on the media briefing – 24 January 2023” [WHO]. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s “Technical Lead” on Covid Response: “Too few folks – particularly older folks and well being employees – are adequately vaccinated. Too many individuals are behind on their boosters. For too many individuals, antivirals stay costly and out of attain. And too many individuals don’t obtain the correct care.” • Superb how Vax-only (plus, to be clear, therapy plus a handwave to healthcare right here) has labored like an odd attractor for international elite opinion. All of them converge on it. Even Xi. Learn Van Kerkhove in full: There’s not a touch of (1) stopping transmission, nothing about (2) airborne, nothing about (3) air flow, nothing about (4) a layered “Swiss Cheese” technique. In different phrases, regardless that Van Kerkhove should know completely properly that Davos attendees understood and acted upon (1)-(4), she has nothing to say about that in public. Don’t need to give the boring normals concepts, I suppose.
“Tonsils Are Main Websites Of Extended Sars-Cov-2 An infection in Youngsters” [medRxiv]. n = 48. From the Summary: “Within the current research, we present that SARS-CoV-2 can infect palatine tonsils and adenoids in youngsters with out signs of COVID-19, with no historical past of current higher airway an infection. …. SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection was not restricted to tonsils, however was additionally detected in nasal cells from the olfactory area. In conclusion, palatine tonsils and adenoids are websites of extended an infection by SARS-CoV-2 in youngsters, .” • I ponder if this “extended an infection” entails transmission….
Case Information
NOT UPDATED BioBot wastewater knowledge from January 23:
Lambert right here: For now, I’m going to make use of this wastewater knowledge as the perfect proxy for case knowledge (ignoring the scientific case knowledge portion of this chart, which in my opinion “goes unhealthy” after March 2022, for causes as but unexplained). No less than we are able to spot traits, and evaluate present ranges to equal previous ranges.
Transmission
Right here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to group transmission (the “crimson map,” which is the map CDC desires solely hospitals to have a look at, not you.) The map is claimed to replace Monday-Friday by 8 pm:
The earlier map:
NOTE: I shall most definitely not be utilizing the CDC’s new “Neighborhood Stage” metric. As a result of CDC has mixed a number one indicator (circumstances) with a lagging one (hospitalization) their new metric is a poor warning signal of a surge, and a poor technique to assess private threat. As well as, Covid is a illness you don’t need to get. Even in case you are not hospitalized, you’ll be able to endure from Lengthy Covid, vascular points, and neurological points. That the “inexperienced map” (which Topol calls a “capitulation” and a “deception”) remains to be up and being taken critically verges on the prison.
Positivity
From the Walgreen’s take a look at positivity tracker, revealed January 26:
-1.3.%.
Wastewater
Wastewater knowledge (CDC), January 21:
Easing off, although you do must surprise what’s the purpose of a nationwide system the place half the nation has gone darkish.
January 21:
And MWRA knowledge, January 24:
Lambert right here: Nonetheless uptick within the north. Nevertheless, just some the scholars are again; BU courses start January 19; Harvard’s January 22.
Variants
Lambert right here: It’s past irritating how gradual the variant knowledge is. Does no person within the public well being institution get a promotion for monitoring variants? Are there no grants? Is there a single lab that does this work, and all people will get the outcomes from them? [grinds teeth, bangs head on desk]. UPDATE Sure. See NC right here on Pango. Each Friday, a stately, educational tempo totally incompatible with defending your self towards a variant exhibiting doubling conduct.
Variant knowledge, nationwide (Walgreens), January 16:
Lambert right here: XBB overtakes BQ, however CH is arising on the skin. That’s a bit unsettling, as a result of a Tweet in Hyperlinks, January 11 from GM drew consideration to it (“shows such a excessive relative development benefit”) and in Water Cooler, January 18, from Nature: “CH.1.1 and CA.3.1 variants have been extremely immune to each monovalent and bivalent mRNA vaccinations.” Now right here is CH.1.1 within the Walgreens variant knowledge. Let’s see what CDC does with it tomorrow, if something. The Covid variant practice all the time leaves on time, and there’s all the time one other practice coming!
Lambert right here: Wierdly, the display shot about has been changed at this time by knowledge from “10/7/2022.” (It’s clearly not present knowledge; BQ.1* and XBB don’t dominate.
NOT UPDATED Variant knowledge, nationwide (CDC), December 31 (Nowcast off):
BQ.1* takes first place. XBB arising quick. CH.1, not like the Walgreens chart, doesn’t seem. (For BQ.1/XBB and vaccine escape, see right here.) Right here is Area 2, the Northeast, the place each BQ.1* and XBB are stated to be increased, and are:
Makes clear that Area 2 (New England) varies enormously from the nationwide common. Wouldn’t it’s attention-grabbing if we ended up with completely different variants dominating completely different elements of the nation.
• As a examine, since New York is a BQ.1* hotbed, New York hospitalization, up to date January 26:
• Hospitalization knowledge for Queens, up to date January 23:
Deaths
Dying charge (Our World in Information):
Whole: 1,130,962 – 1,129,618 = 472 * 1344 (1344 * 365 = 490,560 deaths per yr, at this time’s YouGenicist™ quantity for “dwelling with” Covid (fairly a bit increased than the minimizers would really like, although they’ll 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 achieved” for this explicit tranche of dying and illness).
Lambert right here: Deaths lag, and now we now have some affirmation that no matter we simply went by is reducing.
It’s good that for deaths I’ve a easy, every day chart that simply retains chugging alongside, not like every little thing else CDC and the White Home are screwing up or letting go darkish, good job. (Although CDC could also be jiggering the numbers quickly. Decrease, naturally.)
Stats Watch
Employment State of affairs: “United States Preliminary Jobless Claims” [Trading Economics]. “The variety of Individuals submitting new claims for unemployment advantages fell by 6,000 from the earlier week’s downwardly revised worth to 186,000 on the week ending January twenty first, the bottom since April, and properly beneath expectations of 205,000. The consequence additional consolidated proof of a good labor market regardless of elevated tech layoffs and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive tightening path final yr.”
Manufacturing: “United States Sturdy Items Orders” [Trading Economics]. “Sturdy items orders within the US, which measure the price of orders obtained by producers of products meant to final a minimum of three years, soared 5.6 % month-over-month in December of 2022. It was the sharpest acquire since July 2020 and properly above market forecasts of a 2.5 % improve. Transportation tools, up 4 of the final 5 months, drove the rise.”
Manufacturing: “United States Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Kansas Metropolis Fed’s Manufacturing Manufacturing index rose to -4 in January of 2023 from an upwardly revised -6 within the earlier month, pointing to the bottom lower in manufacturing output in 4 months. Enhancements have been famous largely in sturdy items crops, primarily for wooden merchandise, equipment, and the manufacturing of transportation tools.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing to seem in federal court docket for crime associated to 737-Max airplane crashes” [WJLA (ChrisFromGA)]. “Airline large, Boeing, will seem in federal prison court docket in Texas on Thursday…. [V]ictims’ households are planning to testify in Texas this week on the arraignment. And in doing so, they hope to encourage the choose to rescind the immunity settlement between Boeing and the Division of Justice as a result of, beneath the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act, households have been presupposed to be consulted in that settlement and weren’t…. If the choose throws out the immunity provision, the lawyer for victims’ households, Paul Cassell informed 7News that it will be potential for extra costs to be filed towards Boeing’s management on the time of the crashes. This might make the corporate criminally chargeable for the deaths of 346 folks. Cassell stated it’s time for Boeing to be handled like another prison defendant beneath United States legislation.” • Massive time!
“The Economic system”: “United States Chicago Fed Nationwide Exercise Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Chicago Fed Nationwide Exercise Index edged as much as -0.49 in December of 2022 from -0.51 in November, indicating a softer financial contraction within the US financial exercise.”
Retail: “Into the Sparkly Coronary heart of Zazzle’s Font Conflict” [Slate]. “Many people primarily affiliate Zazzle with the vacation playing cards on our fridge. However over the previous 17 years, the corporate has grown right into a market providing clothes, mugs, clocks disguised as bagels, and 1000’s of different customizable merchandise. Zazzle isn’t any Amazon, however final February Bloomberg reported that it was anticipated to quickly go public at a valuation of $1 to $2 billion. That is but to occur. And a few Zazzle sellers concern that the location’s greatest days are actually behind it attributable to a slowly advancing lawsuit, filed final summer time, involving “Blooming Elegant,” one of the vital widespread fonts on Zazzle. Nicky Laatz, who created the crazy, handwriting-style font, says that the corporate openly stole it from her, copying her typeface software program onto its servers and making it accessible to hundreds of thousands of consumers with no correct license. Due to this fact the corporate owes her a lower of hundreds of thousands in income, her attorneys argue. Zazzle has pushed to dismiss the go well with, arguing, partly, that she’s misinterpreting copyright legislation. • I’m submitting this beneath Retail in case anyone is lengthy (or quick) Zazzle, however learn on for the problems of what’s and isn’t licensable on the Intertubes.
The Bezzle: “Considered one of Wall Road’s most feared short-selling analysis companies simply accused Asia’s richest man of a multibillion-dollar fraud” [Fortune]. “In a report revealed on Tuesday, Hindenburg Analysis stated Adani Group and its founder, Gautam Adani—one of many richest folks on this planet—had engaged in ‘a brazen inventory manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of a long time.’… Hindenburg Analysis has a historical past of shining a light-weight on company malpractice, efficiently predicting the demise or exposing the shortcomings of a number of corporations, together with Nikola, Riot Blockchain, and China Steel Assets Utilization…. By its wide-reaching investigations, Hindenburg stated it had uncovered a “huge labyrinth of offshore shell entities” being managed by Adani’s older brother, Vinod. Thirty-eight of these shell corporations have been in Mauritius, the report claimed, with others found in Cyprus, the UAE, Singapore, and the Caribbean. ‘The shells appear to serve a number of capabilities, together with inventory parking/inventory manipulation and laundering cash by Adani’s personal corporations onto the listed corporations’ stability sheets with a purpose to preserve the looks of economic well being and solvency,’ Hindenburg’s report stated. ‘This offshore shell community additionally appears to be used for earnings manipulation.’ One offshore fund had allotted round $3 billion nearly completely to shares of Adani Group corporations, Hindenburg’s report additionally claimed. A former dealer on the fund reportedly stated it was apparent the Adanis managed these shares, however that the fund had been ‘deliberately structured to hide their final helpful possession.’”
Labor Market: “What Is “Core PCE Providers Ex-Housing” Anyway?” [Employ America]. “The Fed is anxious that inflation will proceed till wage development comes down or unemployment ticks up. As proof for this proposition, the Fed has been pointing to the continued energy in “Core PCE Providers ex-Housing” as a very powerful metric for the financial coverage outlook. … By utilizing “Core PCE Providers ex-Housing”, the Fed is acknowledging that pandemic disruptions have led to inflation in a variety of sectors, and that inflation in core items and housing is analytically distinct from wage-driven cost-push inflation. However does this metric really seize cyclical inflation pushed by the labor market? And the way a lot of the inflation that it does seize is definitely proof of wage-driven cost-push inflation? … As we’ll see, there are ample side-channels by which the very dynamics the Fed is trying to display out can present up on this mixture. Even worse, roughly 1 / 4 of this newly most popular worth mixture is straight based mostly on opaque indices of compensation and never market-determined shopper costs, making a mechanical relationship between compensation knowledge and the Fed’s gauge of inflation. A wage goal just isn’t a priori fallacious – our flagship Ground Gross Labor Revenue proposal sits comfortably throughout the thought of wage targets – however presenting a wage goal as if it have been a worth goal is analytically unacceptable.” • Into the weeds… However when you’re a Fed watcher, that is for you.
As we speak’s Concern & Greed Index: 69 Greed (earlier shut: 64 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 54 (Impartial). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jan 26 at 12:51 PM EST.
Healthcare
“Warning: Business Dishwashers Can Injury the Intestine and Result in Power Illness” [SciTech Daily]. “A typical cycle in a business dishwasher entails circulating sizzling water and detergent for round 60 seconds at excessive stress. Afterward, there’s a second 60-second washing and drying cycle wherein water and a rinse agent are utilized. ‘What’s particularly alarming is that in lots of home equipment, there’s no extra wash cycle to take away the remaining rinse assist,’ says Cezmi Akdis, UZH professor of experimental allergology and immunology and director of the SIAF, who led the research. ‘Because of this probably poisonous substances stay on the dishes, the place they then dry in place.’ When the dishes are used the subsequent time, this dried chemical residue can simply find yourself within the gastrointestinal tract. This impressed the analysis workforce beneath Akdis to analyze what impact the elements of commercial-grade detergents and rinse brokers have on the barrier within the intestine – the layer of cells that traces the intestinal tract and controls what enters the physique. A defect on this barrier is related to situations corresponding to meals allergic reactions, gastritis, diabetes, weight problems, cirrhosis of the liver, rheumatoid arthritis, a number of sclerosis, autism spectrum issues, persistent despair, and Alzheimer’s illness… The workforce used varied biomolecular strategies to investigate the impact that business detergents and rinse aids have on these cells. They diluted these substances to replicate the quantities that will be current on dry dishes (1:10,000 to 1:40,000). The consequence was that top doses of rinse brokers killed the intestinal epithelial cells and decrease doses made it extra permeable. Researchers additionally noticed the activation of a number of genes and cell signaling proteins that would set off inflammatory responses. A extra detailed evaluation confirmed that one element of the rinse agent – alcohol ethoxylates – was chargeable for this response. In accordance with Akdis, these findings have important implications for public well being.” • “Epithelial.” There’s that phrase once more.
Zeitgeist Watch
“I used ‘fortunate lady syndrome’ to make greater than £1 million from my jewelry model – and it may possibly assist YOU get something you need too!” [Daily Mail]. “After utilizing the Fortunate Lady Syndrome approach ‘for years’, Stephanie admits her largest ‘gripe’ with the strategy is its title. ‘It has NOTHING to do with luck,’ she insisted. ‘It’s the legislation of assumption – while you anticipate it to occur, it certainly will.’” • Dogmatic doxastic voluntarism (DDV). It’s all over the place!
Information of the Wired
“Why Company America Nonetheless Runs on Historical Software program That Breaks” (podcast) [Odd Lots]. “Southwest Airways had a disastrous vacation season, thanks partly to a software program bug that left crews misplaced and grounded 1000’s of flights. However Southwest isn’t alone in having software program within the headlines currently. The New York Inventory Change lately had a software program error that brought about bizarre pricing on shares and the FAA had its personal laptop situation that grounded planes earlier this month. So what’s the take care of company software program?”
“New Starbucks coming to space of Fresno that’s by no means had one, plans to open subsequent yr” [Fresno Bee].
Really feel Good Fresno Week at Bare Capitalism continues: “The nation’s hottest espresso store might be going up at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Church Avenue. That’s near the place the brand new Fresno Metropolis Faculty West Fresno campus is being constructed at Church and Walnut avenues.” • I used to be dwelling in Palmdale, CA when the primary Starbucks got here in, a part of a ginormous Barnes & Noble dropped by helicopter onto a concrete slab subsequent to a car parking zone. I used to be really inspired, not a lot on the quantity of horrid sticky drinks bought by the Starbucks, however by how a lot folks needed to learn. So I’m happy that Fresno is getting a brand new faculty campus. (And I hope the Fresno Starbucks promptly unionizes.)
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