Saturday, October 25, 2025

Links 7/29/2021

Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers

Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench

Grassroots Fight for $15 Movement Has Won $150 Billion in Raises for Millions of Workers, Study Shows

The campaign to raise the hourly wage to $15 has been racking up successes, even if the press doesn’t much take notice.

The Infinite Loop of Empty Direct-to-Consumer Branding

Taking note of a weirdly hollow millenial-focused consumer brand type.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/28/2021

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Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2

The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance

Links 7/28/21

CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective

If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.

Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?

Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.

Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline

Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2021

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U.S. Vaccine Diplomat Cajoles Producers to Support Low-Cost Off-Shore Vaccine Hubs

The Biden administration should push the WTO to waive COVID vaccine patents before heading off for vacation and encourage U.S. producers to ramp up low-cost vaccine production worldwide.

Links 7/27/21

Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?

Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.

Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’

Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.