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Thursday, December 25, 2025
How Mitch McConnell’s Hostility to the Unemployment Supplement Puts Ordinary Americans’ Welfare at Risk
Republicans intend to shoot themselves and the economy in the head out of ideological rigidity by killing the unemployment supplement.
Ohio House Speaker Arrested in Alleged $60 Million Racketeering, Bribery, Money Laundering Scheme; A Window Into Politics in America
Ohio’s biggest political corruption case is a doozy, with riveting racketeering charges and lots of dirty tricks.
Boeing 737 Max Ungrounding Pushed Back Again; WSJ Sources Say Early 2021
Moar bad news for the 737 Max.
Random Testing in Indiana Shows COVID-19 is 6 Times Deadlier Than Flu, and 2.8% of the State Has Been Infected
Sobering data from the first random statewide Covid-19 survey.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/21/2020
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Recovery of Collapsed Airline Traffic in the US Backtracks
Traffiic data confirmed warnings by United and Delta of re-declining ticket sales, seinding airline shares down 3.7% intraday.
COVID-19 and the Garment Industry’s Invisible Hands
How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.
Immaculate Deception, Fed Style
The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.
As Covid-19 Patients Skew Younger, Tracing Task Seems All But Impossible
Why Covid-19 infecting younger people is making disease contaiment harder.
How the SARS-COV-2 Virus Gets In and How to Block It: Aerosols, Droplets, Masks, Shields (with Discussion of Reinfection)
A symposium on SARS-COV-2 transmission, plus an aggregation of the findable cases of SARS-COV-2 reinfection (with commentary and speculation).
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2020
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Contagious Protests
Street protests propagate across borders. The results point to social media as a vehicle for contagion.
